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 [...]
“Charter of Rights” is bad for Tasmania: The Liberals will oppose weakening our democracy
The Tasmanian Liberals will be vigorously opposing the proposal cooked up by Mr McKim and Ms Giddings for the pleasant-sounding “Charter of Rights”. We now challenge new Premier Lara Giddings to prove that she is serious about the key issues of the economy, jobs and the cost of living by dumping her anti-democratic project. Rather [...]
Participation at the 5th International Parliamentary Governance Seminar
I’ve just come away from a 9 day conference hosted by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. It has been a significant event in my term as a Tasmanian parliamentarian, so I would like to share some initial reflections and hope that some of the things I’ve learned will be of interest to my readers and supporters.
