Dr McGinity saga: No Minister, it’s about due process and natural justice.

Earlier this week, I attended the Scottsdale public meeting to support Dr Paul McGinity along with more than 200 angry locals. Anyone who took the time to attend and listen to the range of speakers could only have concluded that there is an agenda to pursue Dr McGinity at the expense of due process and [...]

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Liberal’s budget reply: leadership and vision for the future

2009-10 STATE BUDGET ADDRESS IN REPLY THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION, HON. WILL HODGMAN MP Vision and leadership Tasmania’s economic circumstances do not just demand a response. They demand change.

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Media Release: Tasmanian Parliament should say ‘no’ to assisted suicide push

Liberal candidate for Bass Michael Ferguson today called on all members of the House of Assembly to reject the Greens’ proposed euthanasia legislation as an ill-conceived attempt to condone assisted suicide. Mr Ferguson said this was his strong personal view and noted that the Parliamentary Liberal Party had adopted a conscience vote position on the [...]

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Tasmanian Parliament report on the need for legislation on voluntary euthanasia

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE REPORT ON THE NEED FOR LEGISLATION ON VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA (1998)

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Labor’s complete stuff-up on the Royal Hobart Hospital

The Bartlett – Giddings Labor Government has finally decided to do what most Tasmanians have been saying for ages:  we can’t afford Labor’s uncosted adventure into a billion-dollar-plus new hospital on the Hobart waterfront.  I am also publishing on this site an email sent to DHHS staff…

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