Budget Reply Speech
Cassy O'Connor delivers a budget reply speech for the 2019-20 state Budget, and speaks to alternative policies in the Greens' Alternative Budget.
Cassy O'Connor delivers a budget reply speech for the 2019-20 state Budget, and speaks to alternative policies in the Greens' Alternative Budget.
Cassy O'Connor delivers a Second Reading speech for the Greens' Police Offences Amendment (Begging) Bill, to remove the offence of begging in Tasmania.
The pressure cooker environment in Risdon Prison tells us everything about your Government's failure to manage it safely and in the public interest.
Prisoners who are suitable to be released on parole are being forced to stay in prison because they can't get housing.
When they axed the Reintegration of Ex-Offenders Program, the Liberals promised they would improve housing and assistance for ex-inmates.
The Sentencing Amendment Bill debated in Parliament expands the power to make Drug Treatment Orders to the Supreme Court.
The Liberals have taken the next step in scrapping suspended sentences, producing legislation for public comment.
The Greens have discussed our energy strategy on numbers of occasions in this House since we tabled it early this year.
The Sentencing Advisory Council's report on the phasing out of suspended sentences delivered a list of less proven and far more costly alternatives.
The draft report of the Sentencing Advisory Council makes it clear the Liberals' plan to abolish suspended sentences could triple Tasmania's prison population.