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Census Lays Liberals’ Homelessness Failure BareNew data on the massive increase in homelessness in Tasmania is deeply distressing, and again highlights the need for urgent action from government Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 23 Mar 2023 |
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Liberal Government PrioritiesJust who do you govern for? It is certainly not for the battlers or everyday Tasmanians. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 28 Feb 2023 |
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Who Does Jeremy Rockliff Govern For?Who is Premier Rockliff governing for? It’s not battlers, or everyday Tasmanians. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 28 Feb 2023 |
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Empty Homes Levy NeededThe Greens are proud to jointly launch a new Parliamentary Petition with the Tasmanian University Students Association, calling for an empty homes levy Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 21 Feb 2023 |
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Up To Liberals To Rein in Short StayA new Planning Commission decision shows it’s the Liberal Government's responsibility to rein in short stay and curb the rental crisis. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 18 Feb 2023 |
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More Evidence of Liberals' Housing FailureThe Productivity Commission’s Report on Government Services (RoGS) has exposed the Rockliff Government’s failure to tackle the housing and rental crisis. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 24 Jan 2023 |
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Rental Crisis DeepensNewly released data shows the unaffordability of Tasmania’s rental market continues to worsen, with rents expected to keep going up and up. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 11 Jan 2023 |
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Liberals Must Act on Soaring RentsNewly released data demonstrates once more the urgent need for the Rockliff Government to protect renters from soaring rents and unfair eviction Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 29 Nov 2022 |
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Social Housing - IssuesThe Greens support this motion and we believe it is written in such a way that is fact-rich and unarguable in its intent. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 26 Oct 2022 |
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Proposed Stadium Development - OppositionIf people need an ambulance in Tasmania right now, there is significant uncertainty about whether it will arrive in time. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 19 Oct 2022 |
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Tasmanian Housing CrisisThe rolling 12-month average for time to house priority applicants is now 71.2 weeks, up from 58.9 weeks a year ago. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 19 Oct 2022 |
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Rent Stress Confirms Need for Liberals, Labor to Support Greens’ BillIt's time for the Liberal and Labor parties to get on board with the Greens' Bill to fix the state's rental laws. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 13 Oct 2022 |
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Investment in InfrastructureOur issue, as Greens, is the type of infrastructure that government prioritises. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 28 Sep 2022 |
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Government Priorities - Proposed Stadium DevelopmentPeople are dying on the elective surgery waiting list, or while waiting for an ambulance or ramped outside emergency departments. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 27 Sep 2022 |
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Springvale Student Accommodation - ClosureWhat the House needs to understand is that it is the Education minister's decision alone which lead to the closure of the Springvale Student Accommodation. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 23 Aug 2022 |
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Select Committee - Private Rental MarketWe have tried in this place a number of times to get parliament to take the issue of soaring, unjustifiable rent increases seriously. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 17 Aug 2022 |
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Tasmania Should Follow Queensland’s Lead on Pets in Rental HomesPets are beloved companions and family members. People who choose to have furry companions shouldn’t be refused housing on that basis. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 5 Jul 2022 |
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Shelter Tas Report Demands Action on Short Stay AccommodationNew information on short stay accommodation’s impact on the Tasmanian rental markets highlights the urgent need for the Rockliff Government to step in. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 1 Jul 2022 |
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Estimates Reply - BarnettI am going to focus on two areas, the need to urgently build more social and affordable homes, an of course, his Resources portfolio. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 15 Jun 2022 |
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State Development, Construction and Housing – Rental AffordabilityThat would be an amazing achievement, minister, if you could pull that off, particularly given the track record. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 7 Jun 2022 |
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State Development, Construction and Housing – Constituent IssuesAs you well know Minister, there is a human face to the housing portfolio and in some ways, it is the most challenging and rewarding part of the work. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 7 Jun 2022 |
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Treasurer – Land Tax CutsWas there any advice provided by Treasury in respect of the land tax adjustments that were passed this year? Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 7 Jun 2022 |
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Infrastructure and Transport – HousingWe have 54 per cent of the infrastructure budget allocated towards roads and bridges, and just 15 per cent to human services and housing. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 7 Jun 2022 |
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Workplace Safety and Consumer Affairs – Tasmanian Residential Rental Property Owners AssociationDid the $100 000 grant funding to TRRPOA have any obligations, reporting requirements or KPIs of any kind attached or was it no strings attached? Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 6 Jun 2022 |
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Greens’ Support for Tasmanian AFL and AFLW TeamsOur firm support for the State’s AFL bid, however, did not include backing in a new stadium – and will not. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 10 Jun 2022 |
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Budget 2022-23 - Affordable Housing StrategyIn the past eight years, according to the Productivity Commission, only 578 additional properties have been delivered. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 31 May 2022 |
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Alternative Budget: 2022-23Ours is an Alternative Budget that reflects and responds to the imperatives of the times we live in. Cassy O'Connor MP | Policies | 1 Jun 2022 |
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Rising Cost of Living in TasmaniaIt is very disappointing to see such a tepid, lazy and populist approach to cost of living from Labor. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 4 May 2022 |
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Commonwealth Games - Government's PlanThis is about a government that is more focused on bread and circuses than the bread and butter of the lives of Tasmanians. It is a clear distraction technique. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 23 Mar 2022 |
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Land Tax Rating Amendment Bill 2022For at least a decade, the Department of Treasury and Finance as well as independent economists have warned that Tasmania's own source revenue is too low. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 22 Mar 2022 |
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Reply to Premier's AddressFirst, I acknowledge the Aboriginal people of Tasmania, I acknowledge 219 years of dispossession from landscape and violence towards First Nations people. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 8 Mar 2022 |
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Government Spending PrioritiesThis week you announced a $750 million stadium to be built within five years and $1.5 billion to be built in 10 years. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 3 Mar 2022 |
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Premier Prioritising Mega Stadium Over Homes for TasmaniansThis week the Premier announced a $750 million mega stadium to be built within five years - while allocating $1.5 billion for housing to be built in ten years. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 3 Mar 2022 |
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Land Tax - Effect on Rental PropertiesOver the past two days you have announced a stadium with a retractable roof, and a massive cut to land tax. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 1 Mar 2022 |
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Premier’s Land Tax LiesPeter Gutwein farcically claims his land tax gift to investors will bring down rents, he was, of course, unable to explain. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 1 Mar 2022 |
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Gutwein’s Land Tax Cut for Propertied Class Leaves Battlers in the ColdIn a monumental, but wholly transparent "look over there", Premier Gutwein has handed a land tax cut to well off property investors. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 28 Feb 2022 |
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Greens Back Tenants Union Call for Vacant Resident TaxFigures released today by the Tenants Union of Tasmania confirm there are at least 563 empty homes in the greater Hobart area alone. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 18 Feb 2022 |
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ROGS Data Confirms Massive Fail on Housing and HomelessnessThe latest ROGS data confirms in hard numbers the Liberals’ failure to invest in increasing supply of social and affordable housing. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 25 Jan 2022 |
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Liberals’ Housing Waiting List ShameThe housing waiting list has more than doubled since the Liberals took office. Now new data shows the average wait time for priority applicants is 18 months Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 26 Nov 2021 |
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Public Housing AvailabilityAlmost every day of the week our office is contacted by Tasmanians desperate for a place to live. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 23 Nov 2021 |
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Housing Waitlist More Than Doubles Under LiberalsTasmania’s public housing waiting list has now more than doubled since the Liberals took government, data released today confirms. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 29 Oct 2021 |
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Hobart Rental Prices Keep Climbing, More Tenants in Financial DistressNew CoreLogic data is yet another reminder of the worsening housing crisis in Tasmania, and the desperate need for government to take action Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 27 Oct 2021 |
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Estimates Reply – Attorney-GeneralOn 7 May, Ms Louise Elliot established an 'Elliot for Council' page. On 13 May this year, TRPPOA applied for funding. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 16 Sep 2021 |
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Tasmanian Residential Rental Property Owners AssociationThe Tasmanian Residential Rental Property Owners Association spent much of the state election promoting the Liberal Party and its candidate, Simon Behrakis. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 15 Sep 2021 |
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State Development - Homelessness and HousingThe number of people who are in housing stress and experiencing homelessness has gone up. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 7 Sep 2021 |
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Treasury - Housing FundingThe Labor-Greens government left the housing waiting list at its lowest level in a decade and built nearly 2500 new homes within four years. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 6 Sep 2021 |
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Budget ReplyI am proud to stand and deliver our alternative Budget on behalf of the Tasmanian Greens. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 1 Sep 2021 |
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Tasmanian Residential Rental Property Owners Association - Government FundingThe incorporation documents for this association show their only current office bearer is Ms Louise Elliot, the president and public officer. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 1 Sep 2021 |
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Social Housing SupplyThe Budget papers reveal the consequences of seven years of underfunding social housing supply. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 31 Aug 2021 |
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Liberals' Housing Failures Pile UpThe Liberals’ lack of genuine motivation to fix the housing crisis was again on display in Parliament today Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 31 Aug 2021 |
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Gutwein’s Band-Aid BudgetAfter eight years of underfunding health, housing, education, skills, and corrections, the Liberals have delivered a Band-Aid Budget Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 26 Aug 2021 |
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Greens Table Legislation to Protect TenantsThe Greens tabled the Residential Tenancy (Rental Market Reform) Amendment Bill 2021 in Parliament today. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 30 Jun 2021 |
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Housing Waiting List Ballooning Under LiberalsMore than 4000 Tasmanians are languishing in stress on the soaring public housing waiting list. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 3 Jun 2021 |
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New CoreLogic Data Confirms Need for Rent Controls, Short Stay ReformThe March 2021 Quarterly Rental Review, just released by CoreLogic, highlights the urgent need for rent controls and short stay accommodation reform. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 28 Apr 2021 |
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Leaders' DebatePeter Gutwein and Rebecca White having a Leaders debate, organised by the Property Council at Wrest Point casino, says everything about their priorities. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 15 Apr 2021 |
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Residential Rent IncreasesThe ACT model, which is a modest policy approach of rent increases being restrained to CPI plus 10 per cent of CPI, has been in place since 1997. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 24 Mar 2021 |
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Residential Tenancy (Rent Control) Amendment Bill 2021The Residential Tenancy (Rent Control) Amendment Bill 2021 replaces the current unworkable rent control provisions in the Residential Tenancy Act of 1997. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 24 Mar 2021 |
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Labor, Liberals, Ogilvie Let Down TenantsThe Greens’ move to protect tenants from unreasonable rent increases was voted down by Labor, the Liberals and Madeleine Ogilvie in Parliament today. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 24 Mar 2021 |
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Cassy O'Connor Reply to Premier's AddressThe world is in the grip of a pandemic and here in Tasmania, of course, there has been suffering. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 18 Mar 2021 |
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Housing and Rental AffordabilityThe Real Estate Institute of Australia says Tasmania's rental affordability is now the worst in the nation. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 18 Mar 2021 |
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Greens Table Rent Control LegislationWe were proud to table the Residential Tenancy (Rent Control) Amendment Bill 2021 today on behalf of all Tasmanian tenants. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 18 Mar 2021 |
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Rents are Soaring, Liberals Oblivious, Parliament Must ActTasmania’s deepening housing crisis requires an urgent response and cooperation across non-government parties and independents in Parliament. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 28 Feb 2021 |
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Two Weeks Before Rental Protections Expire To Leave Tenants More VulnerableThe Premier must extend rental protections to avoid major social fallout while the economy is still struggling and a deadly virus rages across the globe. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 17 Jan 2021 |
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New Figures Show Deepening Housing CrisisThe latest Human Services Dashboard figures reveal Tasmania’s housing crisis is deepening. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 15 Jan 2021 |
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Labor Needs to Stand with TenantsTasmanian Labor needs to take a position on the looming expiry of COVID-19 emergency tenancy protections on 31 January. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 14 Jan 2021 |
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Gutwein Government Leaving Homeless Tasmanians Out in the ColdThe latest Australian Institute of Health and Welfare research reveals less than half the homeless Tasmanians looking for shelter received it in the past year. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 12 Dec 2020 |
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Corrections – Bail HostelTasmania's housing crisis has impacted on the ability of accused people to successfully get bail, for no other reason than that they lack stable accommodation. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 25 Nov 2020 |
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Archer and Jaensch Both Responsible for Decision to Weaken Tenancy LawsMinister Archer, today refused to reveal the reason for her proposal to strip essential tenancy protections from the Residential Tenancy Act. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Media Release | 14 Oct 2020 |
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Community Sector Calls on Jaensch to Rule Out Tenancy ChangesCommunity sector organisations working at the front line of housing disadvantage have written to Housing Minister, Roger Jaensch, today calling on him to rule o Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 9 Oct 2020 |
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Housing Matter of Public ImportanceIt was not until there was clear and distressing evidence of a housing crisis that this Liberal Government made sure there was new money going into Housing. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 22 Sep 2020 |
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Greens Urge MLCs to Amend Begging BillThe Greens urge MLCs to vote against the increased police ‘move on’ powers in Section 5 of the government’s Begging Bill. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 18 Sep 2020 |
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Government Must Commit to Ending Homelessness CrisisThe Gutwein government must commit to a comprehensive plan to end the homelessness crisis. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 3 Aug 2020 |
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Housing Quarterly Report Shows Need for a Housing Led RecoveryThe Gutwein Government is making some inroads in to the critical housing supply shortage but progress remains too slow. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 29 May 2020 |
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More Coordinated Support for Homeless Urgently NeededReports that homeless Tasmanians are being turned away from Hobart’s Safe Night Space centre must be urgently addressed by Minister Jaensch. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 27 May 2020 |
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A Housing Led Recovery for TasmaniaThe Tasmanian Greens today released the first pillar in our plan for Tasmania’s recovery from COVID-19. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 23 May 2020 |
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Social and Affordable Housing Key to RecoverySignificant investment in social and affordable housing would kickstart Tasmania’s social and economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 3 May 2020 |
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Housing Inquiry Report Confirms Need for Major ReformAn increase in funding for social housing, rent reform and curbs on short stay accommodation are essential to tackling Tasmania’s housing crisis. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 14 Feb 2020 |
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Big Business over the Majority of TasmaniansCassy O'Connor questions the Premier over his repeated prioritisation of big business over Tasmanians. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 28 Nov 2019 |
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Housing AffordabilityThere is no question that we are in the middle of a housing crisis and homelessness rates are increasing. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 27 Nov 2019 |
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Senator Abetz, the Hardest of HeartsLiberal Senator, Eric Abetz, needs to get out of his office more and talk to Tasmanians who are homeless or desperately searching for a place to live. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 20 Jun 2019 |
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Infrastructure and JobsThe kind of infrastructure the House needs to be debating more is social infrastructure, housing infrastructure, 21st century infrastructure. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 13 Jun 2019 |
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Estimates Reply - Minister CourtneyThe Residential Tenancy Act, as the Government would know, is an act which has many parts of it that need to be updated. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 12 Jun 2019 |
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Housing and HomelessnessHere we are again in this House, on this day, debating one of the most critically important issues confronting this parliament and the entire state of Tasmania. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 12 Jun 2019 |
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Housing Tasmania High Court challengeThe Government will not rule out a further expenditure of public funds to try to make it easier for Housing Tasmania to evict people into homelessness. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 12 Jun 2019 |
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Housing CrisisThe Government today stands accused by one of their own of 'not giving a shit about the homeless'. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 12 Jun 2019 |
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Liberals' Housing Protection RacketThe Liberals have used their numbers once again to prevent debate on the capacity of another failing Minister. This time, Housing Minister, Roger Jaensch. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 12 Jun 2019 |
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Estimates Reply - Minister JaenschThere is a surge in the budget allocation that runs out next year for child safety services. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 11 Jun 2019 |
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Budget 2019-20 - Essential Services FundingThe elective surgery waiting list has soared, along with time spent in the emergency department, yet there is no new money for health in this year's budget. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 28 May 2019 |
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Budget Reply SpeechCassy O'Connor delivers a budget reply speech for the 2019-20 state Budget, and speaks to alternative policies in the Greens' Alternative Budget. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 29 May 2019 |
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HomelessnessLet us be really clear about where this began, where this crisis started. It started in 2014, that is a fact. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 21 May 2019 |
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Short Stay Accommodation Bill 2018Anglicare produces an annual snapshot of the rental market focusing on people who earn the least. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 1 May 2019 |
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Select Committee into Housing AffordabilityWe will be supporting the Labor Party's motion to establish a select committee for this purpose. It is important that we use every tool we have in the box. Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP | Parliamentary Activity | 1 May 2019 |
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Public HousingCassy O'Connor speaks to Labor's Matter of Public Importance on Public Housing, discussing the housing crisis and inadequate tenancy law. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 9 Apr 2019 |
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Emergency Accommodation RequirementsSince Estimates the Minister for Housing has not had to respond in any public sense to an unresolved housing crisis. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 29 Aug 2018 |
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Full Debate - Short-stay Accommodation and Housing CrisisIn Greater Hobart, at least 1993 properties are listed on just one short stay platform, more than double the amount listed in 2016. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 13 Jun 2018 |
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Housing Crisis - Regulation of Short Stay AccommodationThe data reveals that between July 2016 and February 2018 an extra 2200 properties were listed on Airbnb and it is clear we have not yet reached peak Airbnb. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 13 Jun 2018 |
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Jaensch Tinkering While Housing Crisis EscalatesMinster Jaensch’s response to the escalating housing crisis is completely out of touch. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 7 Jun 2018 |
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Housing - Effect of Short-Stay Accommodation on Rental MarketA short time ago you challenged us to put forward solutions to the housing emergency. Here are two that the Greens took to the last election. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 23 May 2018 |
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Housing - Confidence in Minister for HousingHobart has become Australia's least affordable capital city - the hardest place to both find and afford a home in the rental market. Cassy O'Connor MP | Parliamentary Activity | 23 May 2018 |
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Domain Figures Confirm Escalating Housing EmergencyHobart rents are now rivalling Melbourne’s, in figures released today by Domain. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 12 Apr 2018 |
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New Housing Minister Has Urgent TaskMr Jaensch faces the most pressing task of any of the newly sworn in Cabinet members. Cassy O'Connor MP | Media Release | 20 Mar 2018 |