Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens Leader
The Hodgman Government’s shameful attachment to secrecy has been laid bare in the national media.
Tasmania bottoms the nation in information transparency, with updated Right to Information (RTI) figures revealed in today’s The Guardian* along with damning comments from the State Ombudsman.
Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens Leader
The Liberals’ undermining of Tasmania’s democracy through heel-dragging on political donations and continued lack of commitment to transparency in government has Tasmania lagging the nation.
Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens Leader
Question Time this week has reached all new lows with close to half of the time allegedly reserved for scrutinising government Ministers taken up with self-congratulatory Dorothy Dixer questions.
Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens Leader
The beneficiary of Tasmania's weak donations' disclosure regime at the last election, the Premier, Will Hodgman, has announced a year-long review into electoral reforms. This is the political equivalent of looking like you are taking action when, in fact, you are stalling.
Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens’ Leader
The Liberals are playing catch up on the growing level of foreign ownership and influence in Tasmania.
Tasmanians know foreign investors are impacting on the housing market and that almost 25% of our agricultural land has some level of foreign ownership.
Cashed up overseas buyers are not going to be dissuaded by a small tax hit. The Liberals' policy will make no difference to housing availability, nor will it mean any less agricultural land ends up in foreign hands.
Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens’ Leader
The Greens will bring Tasmanian law into the 21st century and protect Tasmanian individuals and communities with a Charter of Human Rights.
Many Tasmanians falsely believe their rights are inviolably protected by our laws when sadly this is not the case. All too often these rights are trampled by corporations and governments alike.
Last year, the Hodgman Liberal Government went all the way to the High Court in a bid to deny citizens the right to protest. They also tried to water down anti-discrimination laws.
Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens’ Leader
The latest Australian Electoral Commission disclosure returns reveal the State Liberals pocketed $2.39 million in political donations in 2016-17, but only declared the sources for $498 000.*
Tasmanians have no idea which vested interests the remaining $1.89 million came from, and that is a taint on our democracy.
The Liberals are the singularly most secretive of all parties when it comes to the corporate sources of their funding. That is why they continually resist donations' disclosure reform at a State level.
Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens’ Leader
Tasmania has the weakest political donations laws in the country and the Greens remain determined to deliver donations' reform to clean up Tasmania's democracy.
For too long, corporate donors wanting to protect their profits have used the money they tip in to the old parties as leverage for policy or legislative outcomes that are not in the best interests of the Tasmanian people.
Andrea Dawkins MP | Greens Member for Bass
Many Tasmanians are set to head to the polls in March and vote to elect local representatives who won't actually represent them for the Parliamentary term.
The Australian Electoral Commission finalised changes to electoral boundaries at the end of last month, yet we’ve had no indication those changes will become law before the State election.
People living on the West Tamar are currently in Lyons, but would see their representatives change to those elected to Bass; and in Prospect Vale, vice versa.
