World Teachers Day is a great time to recognize the positive contribution teachers make to the future of each and every Tasmanian child. Great teachers make learning fun, they inspire, encourage and bring out the best in every child.
North East Rivers Festival & homelessness in Launceston
I thought I would tell Parliament what I got up to between last week’s sitting and this week’s, because of course last Thursday was a day off for the southerners. The northerners quite properly went back to work, just not in the company of parliament.
Damage to war service memorials in Scottsdale
The mindless vandalism of the wooden carving of Simpson and his donkey is a crime against the community because it offends absolutely everyone. The destruction of the lone pine tree is a selfish and insulting assault on the work of those people who worked to establish a living memorial to the losses at Gallipoli.
Sorry
Mr FERGUSON (Bass) – I will choose not to respond to the politics previous speakers have brought to the debate, except to say that I support the minister for bringing the matter forward. It is great that parliament is sitting on this day so that we can mark this day in 1997 when the Bringing [...]
The Arrival – brilliant, inspiring and begging for a wider audience
Madam Deputy Speaker, what I want to talk about tonight is something that really moved me earlier this week. On Saturday night I took my three children along to something which – I should not say surprised me because it certainly did not surprise me to go along to Scotch Oakburn College’s performance of The [...]
