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Fish Farm in Okehampton Bay, Tasmania

Salmon Farmers’ Antibiotic Contamination Chilling

News more than a tonne of antibiotic-spiked feed have been silently dumped into salmon pens, also contaminating native fish and marine sediments, is chilling

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  14 Nov 2022


Fish Farm, Macquarie Harbor

Tassal Fish Farm Operations - Issues

The fact is Tasmanians know what is going on and they are seeing step changes in marine ecosystems around beaches that are being spoiled.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  15 Oct 2020


Bruny Island Lighthouse

Bruny Lighthouse - Privatisation

Cassy O'Connor questions the Minister over public expenditure on Bruny Lighthouse, slated for privatisation.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  26 Nov 2019


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Bruny Island Ferry Reference Group

Mr Adams is indeed a much respected person on Bruny. He is known to many people there.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  30 Aug 2018


Bruny Island Lighthouse

Bruny Island Ferry Service

The State Government awarded the new ferry contract to SeaLink Travel Group on 28 June.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  28 Aug 2018


Bruny Island Lighthouse

Community Opposed to Storm Bay Fish Farm Expansion

The Storm Bay sea-grab by Huon Aquaculture, Tassal and Petuna will see 19 million square metres of public waters privatised.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  21 Jan 2018


Bruny Island Lighthouse

Community-owned Tourism Plan Required for Bruny Islanders

The Premier needs to work with Bruny Islanders to develop a tourism plan that retains the beauty of the environment and protects people's lifestyle.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  11 Nov 2017


Lower Chasm Falls, Smoko Creek, in the Great Western Tiers, Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area

Gagged Liberals' Forest Bill a Recipe for Corruption

In a clear signal they are afraid of Parliamentary scrutiny, the Liberals' gagged debate on their destructive and divisive logging legislation.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  17 Mar 2017


Bruny Island Lighthouse

Logging of High Conservation Value Forests

The Government has announced plans to let loggers into 400 000 hectares of high conservation value, carbon-rich forests.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  13 Oct 2016


Bruny Island Lighthouse

Weak, Short-Sighted Liberals Set to Reignite Forest Wars

Forests in places like Bruny Island, Wielangta, the Blue Tier, North East Highlands and the Tarkine are now under direct threat from Will Hodgman's government.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  13 Oct 2016


Bruny Island Lighthouse

Liberals Declare War on High Conservation Value Forests

The Hodgman Liberals today declared war on 400 000 hectares of Tasmania's globally significant, carbon rich forests.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  12 Oct 2016


Bruny Island Lighthouse

Groom Must Act on Critically Endangered Swift Parrot

Yesterday, the Federal Government silently moved the swift parrot up to critically endangered status under EPBC.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  6 May 2016


Swift Parrot

Greens Still Standing Alone on Protection of the Swift Parrot

In 2015, the International Union for Conservation of Nature declared the swift parrot, the world's fastest parrot, to be critically endangered.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  3 May 2016


Bruny Island Lighthouse

Urgent Bruny Waste Problem Dismissed By Premier

Premier Hodgman refused to promise action on the waste problem on Bruny Island before the Easter tourist rush.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  16 Mar 2016


Bruny Island Lighthouse

Swift Parrot Logging Moratorium

It's pleasing to hear logging operations on Bruny Island will be temporarily halted in an effort to halt the extinction of the Swift Parrot.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  19 Nov 2015


Bruny Island Lighthouse

Tassie Forests could get Logging Reprieve

The Greens welcome Minister Groom’s commitment to investigate whether Tasmania may apply for funding to stop logging the habitat of threatened species.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  27 Aug 2015