On 19th July 2025, Independent Peter George was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in electorate of Franklin.
Thanks to an exuberant campaign that attracted over 600 volunteers, Peter won the seat convincingly on first preference votes - the only candidate in Franklin to do so.
As a Community Independent Peter is accountable only to the people of Franklin, not to lobbyists, political parties or their corporate donors.
Peter is your Independent voice in Parliament. He wants to hear from you!
How many Tasmanian cultural institutions will the Liberals gut to pay for the cost blowouts of the Mac Point stadium?
First TMAG.
Now the repository of all our state’s botanic history, the Tasmanian Herbarium, is being gutted.
Its leader, internationally renowned botanist, Dr Gintaras Kantvilas will lose his job.
What’s next on the list?
This government bleeds our historic and cultural institutions so it can haemorrhage money on a stadium
More and more of my constituents contact me daily in despair - like botanical print maker, Deborah Wace … @deborahwace
Friday, Sept 25, Hobart: I had the pleasure of speaking to the media today beside Tasmanian chefs, Matthew Evans (Fat Pig Farm) and Kirsten Bacon following more than 100 global chefs signing up to get farmed salmon “Off the Table”. Their pledge was first announced in the New York Times but will be in Australian newspapers shortly.
Why are leading global chefs dumping farmed salmon? Because of the international farmed salmon industry’s unacceptable practices, impact on the environment and the incredible mortality rates that no real farmer would tolerate.
Hobart, Thursday, Sept 24
It was good to join a few fellow MPs and others who joined Nala Mansell and others from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre at the Treasury building to contemplate and commemorate part of our island’s history too easily overlooked.
With acknowledgment comes acceptance and with acceptance comes hope for healing.
Sydney, Sept 20: The highlight of my weekend: An evening with flamenco maestro, Paco Lara, performing with my son, Paul A. George at Sydney’s Vanguard venue in Newtown.
Paco comes from the cradle of flamenco, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, where he began his professional career at 16. He settled in Australia in 2017.
Paul’s normally lead guitarist with Tijuana Cartel but has a passion for Spanish guitar and flamenco music.
And before you ask, no, he did not get his musical talent from me.
Predictably, there’s a pile-on by conservative politicians when students exercise their democratic right to protest and express their views.
Somehow, young people aren’t expected to have political views about the future they will inherit.
So who’s surprised when Eric Abetz, Jeremy Rockliff and Pauline Hanson all get stuck in, in the wake of the student protest outside Parliament House this week?
Eric and Jeremy would do better listening to what the next generation has to say.
Oh, and Eric, you’d be better engaged concentrating on repairing the economy:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-15/tasmania-last-in-latest-commbank-economic-report/107154598
Thursday, Sept 17:
Wow!
Great to see so many students and young people outside Parliament to let MPs know what sort of future they want to inherit.
Weirdly, One Nation thinks they’ve all been brainwashed, as if young people can’t think for themselves It’s echoes of the past for me.
In the 60s & 70s young people frequently to let pollies know what they were thinking … anti-apartheid rallies, anti-war, green ban protests, Whitlam’s sacking … and more.
They helped shape Australia’s future.
Wed, Sept 16:
Anyone who lives in the Huon Valley knows how difficult it can be in a remote area to use of public transport.
Thanks to the volunteers of Circular Economy Huon, we’re all invited to help find better ways to serve the valley.
Hard copies will be finding their way around the valley but you can also go online here: https://www.circulareconomyhuon.org.au
Picture: Some of the moving forces behind the survey: Mary Haverland, Samantha Passey, & Steven Burgess and Circular Economy Huon’s Liz Smith.
My parliamentary colleague and gerontologist, Prof George Razay (Ind. Bass) is passionate about working with dementia patients and about what we can all do to reduce the likelihood of suffering from this disease.
He and I may sometimes find ourselves be on the opposite side of a parliamentary debate but in this we’re in lockstep!
