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Parliament House, Tasmania

Right-Wing Extremism

I was proud to stand on the steps of parliament with Tasmania's trans community and their allies in March this year.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  14 Nov 2023


takayna / tarkine, Tasmania

Thank You Colette Harmsen

The Tasmanian Greens stand in solidarity with Dr Colette Harmsen and offer our sincere thanks for her commitment and the sacrifices she has made

Vica Bayley MP  |  Media Release  |  13 Oct 2023


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Forest Protesters - Tribute

The right to peaceful protest in Australia is deeply ingrained and held by all of us. It is part of our identity. It is a core value of the Tasmanian Greens.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  9 Aug 2023


takayna / tarkine, Tasmania

Greens Back Huge Forest Protest Action

The Greens strongly support the huge protest action being held by the Bob Brown Foundation today, and thank all those who have attended

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  10 Aug 2023


Justice, Scales and Gavel

Resources – Helilog Road Mining Lease

Your predecessor in the role, former resources minister, Mr Barnett, approved an unlawful mining lease over Helilog Road.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  8 Jun 2023


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Police Offences Amendment (Workplace Protection) Bill 2022 - Legislative Council Amendments

What we know is that this minister has egg all over his face after three unsuccessful attempts through previous bills which were found to be unconstitutional.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  7 Sep 2022


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Upper House Votes to Undermine Democracy

The Liberal Government’s savagely undemocratic and unnecessary anti-protest legislation is all but certain to become law.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  25 Aug 2022


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Labor Needs to Return to Traditional Values and Vote Against Anti-Protest Bill in Upper House

We hope Tasmanian Labor realise their grave mistake in voting for the draconian Police Offences Amendment (Workplace Protection) Bill 2022.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  21 Jun 2022


Mining

Resources – MMG

You unlawfully approved a permit for MMG over Helilog road and subsequently they were a number of unlawful arrests made.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  7 Jun 2022


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Resources – Protestor Arrests

Forest protesters were unlawfully arrested and charged at a number of locations, including the Wentworth Hills and in the north-east tiers.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  7 Jun 2022


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Resources – Anti-Protest Laws

Do you admit that the legislation is based on a lie, given that there have been zero serious safety incidents on workplaces as a result of protests?

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  7 Jun 2022


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Workplace Safety and Consumer Affairs – Protests on Work Sites

The premise of the police offences amendments is flawed, is false in fact, in the context of workers safety on worksites as a result of peaceful protests.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  6 Jun 2022


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WorkSafe - Reports of Injuries caused by Protesters

The court was also told the employee received no training regarding the hazards of unguarded belts.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  2 Jun 2022


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Police Offences Amendment (Workplace Protection) Bill 2022

In 2014 the Liberal Government started its attack on the rights of citizens to represent their community and their views through peaceful protest.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  24 May 2022


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Police Offences Amendment (Workplace Protection) Bill 2022

Labor just want a carve out for the unions because the unions are there political and financial backers. They could not give less of a toss about other workers.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  5 May 2022


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Importance of Peaceful Protest

All the great gains of the Tasmania we know and love have come from the passion of our people, uniting to make things better, protesting where we must.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  5 May 2022


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Attack on Peaceful Protests

As a new Premier, passionate about the mental health of our young people, how can you justify this continued attack on their future with this antiquated agenda?

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  4 May 2022


Logged Forest, Tarkine

Barnett’s Potentially Unlawful Portfolio Decisions in Spotlight

Resources Minister, Guy Barnett, often rants about protesters targeting lawful activities, but it seems like he’s the one with a problem following the law.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  31 Mar 2022


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Gutwein Liberals Try Third Attempt at Anti-Protest Laws

When will the Liberals learn they can’t arrest their way out of a climate and biodiversity crisis?

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  28 Mar 2022


Pile of Woodchips

Greens Stand By Wentworth Hills Forest Defenders

Forest defenders from the Bob Brown Foundations have this morning, once again, put their bodies on the line to protect Earth's precious Tasmanian carbon banks.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  17 Feb 2022


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School Strike for Climate

There was a rally that went from the Domain to Parliament lawns, an enormous logistical exercise given it rained and given the COVID-19 requirements.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  28 Oct 2021


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Anti-protest Laws - Classification of Protesters

We have now had a chance to take a good look at the Government's proposed amendments to the nasty anti protest laws which were found to be unconstitutional.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  16 Sep 2021


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Parks - Anti-Protest Bill

I have a follow-up question, about the Workplace Protection from Protestors Amendment Bill 2019, which is currently in draft form.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  9 Sep 2021


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Workplaces (Protection from Protesters) Amendment Bill 2021

The amendment Bill removes all reference to environmental protestors, but that’s exactly who it targets.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Submission  |  17 Sep 2021


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Resources - Anti-Protest Legislation

Is it your Government's intention also to prohibit protest, lock people up, slap them with huge fines if they're defending public protected areas?

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  9 Sep 2021


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Premier - Protestors

The third attempt to make this legislation constitutional would exempt a protest, for example, outside the hospital.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  6 Sep 2021


Bureaucracy, Professional with Paperwork

Integrity Commission Summary Report - Investigation Tyndall

I want to place on the record an assessment of the veracity of our respective media releases.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  25 Aug 2021


Bureaucracy, Professional with Paperwork

Integrity Commission - Summary Report of Investigation Tyndall

The Integrity Commission report tabled yesterday contained allegations from the CEO of WorkSafe.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  25 Aug 2021


Logged Forest, Tarkine

Integrity Commission Report on WorkSafe Tasmania

The Integrity Commission’s report, tabled in Parliament today, confirms the Liberals will stop at nothing when it comes to logging our carbon-rich forests.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  24 Aug 2021


takayna / tarkine, Tasmania

Anthony Houston, a Tasmanian Hero

Today, high profile farmer Anthony Houston has joined the blockade - a sign this campaign is entering the mainstream.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  17 Jun 2021


Wielangta, Tasmanian Forest Agreement Forest

Forestry Protests - Legislation

To demonise a group, that is one step down the road toward authoritarianism.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  24 Mar 2021


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Anti-Protest Laws

We have here leaked correspondence which makes clear the startling overreach behind these laws, which were found unconstitutional by the High Court.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  24 Mar 2021


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Greens Welcome Defeat of Draconian Anti-Protest Laws

The right to peaceful protest remains protected in Tasmania, following defeat of the Liberals’ draconian, unconstitutional anti-protest amendment Bill.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  25 Mar 2021


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Right to Peaceful Protest

We know who the real radicals are and who the extremists are. They are people who want to trash forests and people who are driving the climate emergency.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  18 Mar 2021


Womens March, 'A Woman's Place is In the Resistance' Sign

Right to Peaceful Protest

The March 4 Justice rally held at the beginning of this week was a powerful and historic moment.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  18 Mar 2021


Chestnut Teal Ducks

Greens Bear Witness to Duck Slaughter

Gun shots echoed across Tasmania’s inland waterways this morning, as native ducks were blasted out of the skies in the name of ‘sport’.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  6 Mar 2021


Log Pile at the Port of Burnie, Tasmania

Greens Back BBF, Forests and Future Generations

The Greens applaud the work of the brave forest defenders at the Bob Brown Foundation.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  1 Mar 2021


Pile of Woodchips

Forest Defenders Highlight Tasmania’s Woodchip Tragedy

Tasmania Police must investigate the violent & threatening actions of Artec employees & log truck drivers towards forest defenders at Bell Bay woodchip mill.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  12 Feb 2021


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Premier – Anti-Protest Bill

The failed Workplaces (Protection from Protesters) Act was basically regarded as unconstitutional by the High Court.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  23 Nov 2020


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Premier Confirms Anti-Protest Laws Pure Politics

Almost a year to since day the Liberals rammed their anti-protest laws through the Lower House, Premier Gutwein has confirmed the legislation was not urgent.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  23 Nov 2020


Logged Forest, Tarkine

Logging During COVID-19

The continuation of destructive logging activity has been a disappointing blight on an otherwise thoughtful approach by the Premier through this pandemic.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  22 May 2020


Blue Tier, Tasmanian Forest Agreement Forest

Tree Spiking Allegations Have a Stink, Demand Investigation

No life should be at risk, nor physical harm come to any individual on either side of the forestry debate.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  20 May 2020


Corruption, Handing over Envelope

WorkSafe Tasmania and the Bob Brown Foundation

The Liberals, the Labor Party and the Independent are all doing the same thing: they are creating a faux risk, but this is not what this issue is about.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  5 Mar 2020


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WorkSafe Tasmania and the Bob Brown Foundation

For the public to be able to have a measure of faith in the integrity of ministers of the Crown is essential and a foundational aspect of our democracy.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  5 Mar 2020


Law Books

Activities of WorkSafe Tasmania Regulator

On your watch Tasmania's Workplace Health and Safety Regulator has explicitly targeted the Bob Brown Foundation.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  5 Mar 2020


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WorkSafe Tasmania Referral of Bob Brown Foundation

You and Mr Barnett issued a joint media statement on the morning of 21 February that stated that you had referred the Bob Brown Foundation to WorkSafe.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  4 Mar 2020


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Questions Still Hang Over WorkSafe Protest Referral

The Minister for Justice, Elise Archer, undermined her own official statement and denied she referred the Bob Brown Foundation to WorkSafe.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  4 Mar 2020


Law Books

WorkSafe Tasmania Prohibition Notice on Bob Brown Foundation

Did the Attorney-General or Mr Barnett give you the heads up about the prohibition notice that WorkSafe Tasmania tried to slap on the Bob Brown Foundation?

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  3 Mar 2020


Law Books

Slippery Language from Gutwein on WorkSafe Referral

Peter Gutwein could not give an honest answer about his knowledge of the unlawful WorkSafe prohibition notice slapped on the Bob Brown Foundation.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  3 Mar 2020


Legislation, Clause Being Highlighted

Greens Refer Barnett, Archer and WorkSafe CEO to Integrity Commission

The Tasmanian Greens have today written to the Integrity Commissioner asking him to investigate allegations of the serious misconduct.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  27 Feb 2020


Corruption, Handing over Envelope

Integrity Commission referral of Archer, Barnett and Cocker

Referral of Attorney-General Archer, Minister Barnett, and WorkSafe Chief Executive Mark Cocker to the Integrity Commission for investigation of misconduct.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Submission  |  27 Feb 2020


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Court Vindicates Forest Defenders' Right to Peaceful Protest

Today’s decision by the Magistrates Court to uphold the Bob Brown Foundation’s Appeal against the government’s protest ban is very welcome news.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  26 Feb 2020


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Gutwein Government Dog Whistling to Pro-Logging Thugs

Within 24 hours of the Government abusing the law to target protesters in the Tarkine, pro-logging thugs attacked those same peaceful protesters overnight.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  22 Feb 2020


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Another Authoritarian Attack on Peaceful Protesters

Today’s attack on peaceful protest through WorkSafe’s directive to the Bob Brown Foundation is a politically motivated shield for the logging industry.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  21 Feb 2020


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Forest Defenders Making a Difference in takayna

The presence of activists in takayna/Tarkine is clearly making a big impact on planned logging operations in the region.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  11 Feb 2020


Parliament House, Tasmania

Priorities of Government

Rosalie Woodruff speaks during the Adjournment on the Government's prioritisation of political legislation over meaningful policies.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  27 Nov 2019


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Anti-Protest Legislation

Cassy O'Connor rises on the adjournment to criticise the Government's anti-protest legislation.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  27 Nov 2019


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Liberals, Ogilvie Vote to Gag Democracy

If it wasn’t chilling enough for the Liberals to erode democratic rights with anti-protest laws, today they gagged debate on the legislation itself.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  28 Nov 2019


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Workplaces (Protection from Protesters) Amendment Bill 2019

As a child, I remember some part of me just knew that that was a possibility. If all else failed, I could go to the streets to make my voice known.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  27 Nov 2019


Law Books

Workplaces (Protection from Protesters) Amendment Bill 2019

Whatever we call it, this is a dog of a bill that is designed to take away the freedoms that Tasmanians have enjoyed to peacefully protest.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  27 Nov 2019


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Anti-Protest Legislation

Cassy O'Connor questions the premier over the Government's aggressive approach to protesters.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  27 Nov 2019


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Right to Protest

Rosalie Woodruff speaks during the Adjournment on the anti-protest laws tabled by the Government.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  14 Nov 2019


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Anti-Protest Laws

Cassy O'Connor questions the premier over their second attempt at anti-protest legislation following the High Court's invalidation of the original laws.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  14 Nov 2019


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Hodgman Liberals Marching Tasmania Towards a Police State

The Liberals are determined to stifle the right to peaceful protest in Tasmania.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  14 Nov 2019


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Climate Action Protesters

Cassy O'Connor questions the Premier over their future plans for protest laws.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  16 Oct 2019


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Knitting Nannas

Rosalie Woodruff speaks during the adjournment in support of three women from the 'knitting nannas' who were arrested outside of Parliament for protesting.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  15 Oct 2019


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State Service Should be Given Leave for Climate Strike

Union leaders, UTAS and other employers are showing their support by letting members and staff know they can join the kids fighting for their future.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  14 Sep 2019


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Incitement of Violence on Hong Kong Protesters Must be Condemned

The Tasmanian Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China (CPPRC) appears to be openly inciting violence.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  13 Aug 2019


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Greens Condemn Sumac Forest Attack

The Greens condemn the attack on the Sumac Forest protest camp in takayna/Tarkine. The kind of violence and intimidation displayed overnight is unacceptable.

Dr Rosalie Woodruff MP  |  Media Release  |  15 May 2019


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Right to Peaceful Protest Law - High Court Decision

The entire country now knows a bad law brought in by the Government has led to a landmark High Court decision affirming the right to peaceful protest.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  19 Oct 2017


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Liberal Fail on Dud Anti-Protester Laws

If Tasmanians needed any more proof that the draconian anti-protest laws are unworkable they have it today with charges against every Lapoinya arrestee dropped.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  3 Jun 2016


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Collision Course for High Court

Tasmania’s draconian Anti Protest Law is heading for a High Court challenge after the Government voted against a Greens bill to repeal the legislation.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  25 May 2016


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Hodgman Running Scared from High Court on Anti-Protest Laws

The Government has promised that the laws would not apply to mum and dad protestors, but at Lapoinya not only mums were charged but grandads as well.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Parliamentary Activity  |  25 May 2016


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Time to Scrap Liberals' Protest Laws

The decision by Tasmania Police to drop charges against Bob Brown is further evidence we'd be far better off without the Liberals' protester laws.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  18 May 2016


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Time to Repeal the Anti-Protest Laws

With a High Court challenge under way, now is the right to time for the Government to admit its mistake and to repeal their anti-protest laws.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  17 Mar 2016


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Anti-Protest Laws to be Challenged in High Court

Tasmania's undemocratic anti-protest laws will be tested in the High Court and we applaud those who are prepared to challenge this extreme legislation.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  10 Mar 2016


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Greens Will Move to Repeal Draconian Anti-Protest Laws

The Liberals' extreme anti-protest law is threatening the democratic right of every Tasmanian to take part in peaceful protest.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  14 Feb 2016


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Incompetent, Divisive Forests Minister Must Resign

Resources Minister, Paul Harriss, is presiding over a debacle in his portfolio and all of it, his own making.

Cassy O'Connor MP  |  Media Release  |  20 Jan 2016


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Draconian New Protest Laws Used at Lapoinya

More than 70 concerned residents and community members gathered to stand up for the Lapoinya forest, to protest the roading and forestry operations.

Andrea Dawkins  |  Media Release  |  19 Jan 2016


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Anti-Protest Bill Passed-But Unworkable

People who care about a healthy democracy will be mourning the passage of the government's extreme anti-protest legislation.

Nick Mckim  |  Media Release  |  25 Nov 2014


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Anti-Protest Bill is Unworkable Mess

The anti-protest Bill which passed through the Legislative Council this afternoon is an unworkable mess presided over by an incompetent Forests Minister.

Nick Mckim  |  Media Release  |  18 Nov 2014


Legislation, Clause Being Highlighted

Legal Experts Further Critique Anti-Protest Bill

Not even Australia's harsh anti-terrorism laws include mandatory imprisonment provisions such as those in the Hodgman government’s anti-protest legislation.

Nick Mckim  |  Media Release  |  29 Oct 2014


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Upper House Urged to Reject Proposed Amendments to Anti-Protester Legislation

The Legislative Council should reject the Hodgman government's proposed amended anti-protest legislation.

Nick Mckim  |  Media Release  |  23 Oct 2014


Legislation, Clause Being Highlighted

Anti-Protest Bill Beyond Fixing

The proposed amendments to the Hodgman government’s controversial anti-protest laws do nothing to address the major concerns.

Nick Mckim  |  Media Release  |  22 Oct 2014


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Anti-Protest Bill

The Hodgman government must scrap its fundamentally flawed Workplaces (Protection from Protesters) Bill 2014.

Nick Mckim  |  Media Release  |  24 Sep 2014


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Arrogant Harriss Must Withdraw Anti-Protest Bill

Minister Harriss must withdraw his Workplaces (Protection from Protestors) Bill 2014 in light of the UN Human Rights Commission’s damning critique.

Kim Booth  |  Media Release  |  10 Sep 2014


Legislation, Clause Being Highlighted

Anti Protest Laws Questions Continue

The government is refusing to confirm or deny whether advice was sought on the constitutionality of the Workplaces (Protection from Protesters) Bill 2014.

Nick Mckim  |  Media Release  |  21 Aug 2014


Legislation, Clause Being Highlighted

Anti-Protestor Laws 'Unconstitutional'

Professor George Williams has described the Tasmanian Liberals’ anti-protest legislation as “...on quite shaky constitutional ground”.

Nick Mckim  |  Media Release  |  14 Jul 2014


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WHA Forests

Today’s public rally sends a loud message to the Federal Liberal government to accept the area’s current protected status.

Kim Booth  |  Media Release  |  21 May 2014