Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens Leader
Tasmania’s Upper House has passed nation-leading legislation that would end the punitive and entrenched bureaucratic discrimination against transgender people.
The passing of these amendments will fill many transgender Tasmanians and the people who love them, with hope.
Rosalie Woodruff MP | Greens Health spokesperson
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Mental Health Services 2016-17 report showing one in five Tasmanians use prescription medications to manage mental ill health is alarming.
Cassy O’Connor MP | Greens’ Leader
Hundreds of Tasmanians refused to let thunder and rain dampen their rainbow spirits today at the annual TasPride march through Hobart.
With equal marriage now a reality in Australia, there was much to celebrate but as the rally heard from LGBTI young people and advocates today, discrimination, misunderstanding and exclusion remain a daily reality.
Rosalie Woodruff MP | Greens Health spokesperson
The Australian Medical Association leaves no room for doubt in their criticism of the Hodgman Liberal government’s plan to steamroll through a new acute mental health facility. If Health Minister Michael Ferguson continues to stonewall concerns from medical professionals, he risks placing people in acute mental distress in a dangerous environment.
Rosalie Woodruff MP | Greens' Health spokesperson
The Minister for Health, Michael Ferguson, is potentially placing the Tasmanian Health Service in contempt of court.
Minister Ferguson has failed to properly resource the State's only secure mental health facility, the Wilfred Lopes Centre. Staffing levels are now so low the Centre cannot safely follow a Supreme Court order to admit a prisoner for care.
