In the Legislative Council today, the Government quietly killed off Lara Gidding’s major law reform policy for a Charter of Rights. Long-time anti-Charter protagonist and Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council, Doug Parkinson, appeared to take great pleasure in all but declaring the Charter of Rights dead.
Motion of no confidence in the Minister for Children (Lin Thorp affair)
Mr FERGUSON (Bass) – Mr Speaker, it has been a long day, it has been an important debate and there have been many contributors to it. It will be quite impossible to attempt to give a broad canvas of all the perspectives and things that have been said. A lot of nonsensical statements have been [...]
Ginger & Date slice
Recently I attended a function together with members of the Lupus Association where I listened to an interesting talk related to this illness and gave support to this important cause. Lupus is an auto immune disease which affects many Tasmanians – especially women. It manifests in different ways in different people with symptoms such as [...]