
Explore some of the recent campaign work from Peg Putt MP.
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Our Alternative Budget Statement 2007-08 outlines our priorities in advance of the State Budget. This year we have pointed out the accumulated cost of at least $375 million of Lennon's Lemons - Labor's misguided splurges on the Hawthorn football club deal, racing facili...
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A Forest Transition Strategy to Protect Forests and Create Sustainable JobsThe need to resolve Tasmania’s forests debate in favour of both forest protection and sustainable jobs has led the Greens to critically examine the forest industry and develop an outline for a process of transformation to alt...
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The Tasmanian Greens have introduced legislation to enact a Bill of Rights in Tasmania. This is a measure designed to restrain the erosion of human rights through legislation such as the proposed Anti Terror laws and comes after the government has refused a Parliamentary Inquiry into those laws. Gre...
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The State of the State Address replaces the annual Governor’s speech to the Parliament which used to occur until recently, with much pomp and ceremony. This now only occurs on the official opening of Parliament. Now, instead every September the Premier delivers the State of the State speech which is...
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Forestry giant Gunns Ltd has served writs on 20 targets (labelled the "Gunns 20") including Senator Bob Brown (Leader of the Australian Greens), Peg Putt MHA (Leader of the Tasmanian Greens), the Wilderness Society, Doctors for Native Forests, the Huon Valley Environment Centre, and numerous indivi...
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Professional Outsiders?A Greens perspective on adminstrative law.
In Tasmania, Greens have been represented in the Parliament for over 20 years, the first green independent having been elected in 1982.
Yet we qualify as outsiders in presenting our perspective on Administrative Law. We grapple,...
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