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!
Someone has to speak out for commercial fishers being bullied into silence by the multinational salmon barons.
They’ve been abandoned by the government.
They’re seeing their livelihoods and way of life threatened.
They’re afraid of losing the vital export market to Asia.
And someone has to speak up to oppose the salmon industry dumping tonnes of antibiotics into diseased fish pens that’s causing it all.
I’ll be speaking at the NOFF “Summer of Antibiotics” rally next Friday on Parliament Lawns, Nipaluna/Hobart. See you there.
Someone has to speak out for commercial fishers being bullied into silence by the multinational salmon barons.
They’ve been abandoned by the government.
They’re seeing their livelihoods and way of life threatened.
They’re afraid of losing the vital export market to Asia.
And someone has to speak up and oppose the salmon industry dumping of tonnes of antibiotics into diseased fish pens that’s causing all this.
I’ll be speaking at the NOFF “Summer of Antibiotics” rally next Friday on Parliament Lawns, Nipaluna/Hobart. See you there.
Nov 12: An outrage in our waterways.
It takes a lot to outrage me, but the closure of waterways and sell-out of our rock lobster and commercial dive industries to satisfy the demands of a multinational salmon industry whose fish are diseased and dying has done the trick.
I’m told abalone fishers will be shut out of the same waters.
Now the salmon barons are trying to buy the silence of those fishers while they dump more tonnes of antibiotics into our waterways.
That’s more per year than the entire Norwegian industry uses - and it’s almost 20x bigger!
If you care about our precious waterways, make a noise, make your voice heard:
Minister for Primary Industries, Gavin Pearce: gavin.pearce@parliament.tas.gov.au
Premier Rockliff: jeremy.rockliff@dpac.tas.gov.au
A kind fisher sent me this photo of a cocky salmon caught off Dover a few days ago with surprising numbers of partly-digested salmon pellets in its belly.
Think about it.
The salmon industry’s planning to dump tonnes of these same pellets laced with the antibiotic, florfenicol, as soon as possible as the marine heatwave hits harder, disease strikes and mortalities mount.
Wild-caught fish ‘n chips anyone?
I recognise a brush-off when I see one.
I wrote to the Premier in the wake of a debate I launched on the future of TMAG last month in which I was supported by Labor, Greens and Independents in calling for a halt to cuts to TMAG.
I wrote: “I urge you to personally intervene, abandon the proposed cuts and - crucially - restore TMAG to the position it deserves for its contribution to science and its curatorship of the island’s natural and human heritage.”
What won’t this government sacrifice to help pay for the Mac Point stadium?
#nostadium #tmag #tasmania #politas
Wed, Nov 4:
Great to hear a wild fisher speaking on the ABC and rejecting the salmon industry’s plans to payout rock lobster and abalone fishers for closing down parts of their fishing grounds because the industry can’t control disease and deaths without resorting to massive doses of the antibiotic, florfenicol.
The salmon industry’s arrogance is truly extraordinary.
It’s worth a listen: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/hobart-mornings/mornings/107332770
Tuesday, Nov 3:
Tasmania, we have a problem. We’re pouring more money than ever into the health service but we’re still languishing at the bottom of the nation’s health outcomes.
The AMA wants a deep, once-in-a-generation investigation into how to get things right … and I reckon it might be right.
#Health #nurses #healthservice #tasmania
Mon, Nov 2:
D-Day (decision day) for the reintroduction or banning of the use of the antibiotic, florfenicol, in diseased Atlantic salmon pens in Tasmanian waters is getting closer as the marine heatwave is already pushing up water temperatures two or three degrees above average.
https://www.apvma.gov.au/news-and-publications/public-consultations/florfenicol-for-emergency-use-on-atlantic-salmon-261102
