ROSEMARY ARMITAGE MLC

Mrs Armitage (Launceston) - Mr President, it is with great pride I speak today about 'Newstead College Says No to Family Violence' program.  The college is the first in Tasmania to embark on this program which raises awareness of family violence in an effort to stop it...

Mrs Armitage (Launceston) - Mr President, I am speaking today about an organisation which for decades has been a champion for supporting women and children in Launceston.  Launceston Women's Shelter Inc, trading as Magnolia Place LWS, is funded by the Department of Hea...

Mrs Armitage (Launceston) - Mr President, I thank the Government and everyone else who has briefed us.  I also thank Mandy Jenkins for the work she has done in facilitating the briefings.

I have been to many kindergartens and preschools in my life, having had four child...

Mrs Armitage (Launceston) to the Honourable Leader of Government, Dr Vanessa Goodwin -

Under current legislation the transfer of e.g. motor vehicles will attract transfer fees/stamp duty unless a Grant of Probate (which comes at some cost) has been issued. If an estate...

Mrs Armitage (Launceston) to the Honourable Leader of Government in the Legislative Council, Dr Vanessa Goodwin -

Can the Leader please advise the current waiting list for colonoscopy and endoscopy at the

1 North West Regional Hospital

2 The Royal Hobart Hospital

3 The Lau...

Mrs Armitage (Launceston) - Mr President, it is an interesting bill with many passionate people briefing us.  I thank the Government and the many community members for our briefings.   This legislation has implications for the whole state.  Rail trails and disused rail...

Mrs Armitage (Launceston) - Motor neurone disease, or MND, is the name given to a group of diseases in which the nerve cells controlling the muscles that enable us to move, speak, breathe and swallow, undergo degeneration and die.  With no nerves to activate them, musc...

Mrs Armitage (Launceston) - Mr President, I move -

That the Legislative Council Government Administration Committee B Report on the Tasmanian Electoral Commission be considered and noted.

I am pleased to speak today about the Legislative Council Government Administration...