Gatty Burnett - Tasmanians Now - Community Outreach Advocate

05/10/2025

05/10/2025

Are they incompetent or disingenuous?

03/10/2025

Circular Head needs a court house, but olde Ruthy can receive an award..

04/09/2025

Do we need a Royal Commission into Tasmanian Police?

In this video, I take you through the unlawful vehicle interception I experienced on April 22, 2025, in Devonport, Tasmania. The video highlights a clear abu...

10/08/2025

Health Consumer Tasmania is currently recruiting health consumers for a healthcare rights and complaints project, which aims to ensure more accessible information about healthcare rights and complaints processes is available to Tasmanians.

EOI and Role Details:

2-hour monthly meetings until June 2026
Remuneration is available at $75 per hour
Meetings will occur online
EOIs close 30 August 2025

RegionNorthNorth West and WestSouthHCT is currently recruiting health consumers for a healthcare rights and complaints project, which aims to ensure more accessible information about healthcare rights and complaints processes is available to Tasmanians. We are seeking a diverse group of six Tasmania...

23/07/2025

On the 29th of July, the Israel Allies Caucus will be hosting a shindig for your elected members.

This group operates as part of a global alliance of over 50 parliamentary caucuses that promote faith-based diplomacy in support of Israel. It works closely with figures like Josh Reinstein from the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus and maintains ties with lobby organisations such as Christians for Israel Australia.

Keep an eye on who shows up, this isn’t just wine and cheese; it’s about influence, allegiance, and the quiet mechanics of foreign policy at home.

21/07/2025

Real-Time Tech to Save the Devils and Protect Our Wild Places

Tasmania’s unique wildlife, including the endangered Tasmanian devil, faces growing threats from habitat loss, climate shifts, and human impact. But real-time environmental technology is giving us a new tool to fight back.

Developed right here in Tasmania, GeoNeon’s monitoring system delivers live data from the landscape, tracking changes in habitat conditions, air quality, emissions, and ecological stress. This isn’t just data for data’s sake. It’s early warning for bushfires. It’s transparency on land use. It’s the ability to see when and where our native species are at risk and act before it's too late.

Protecting the devils means protecting their environment. Real-time insight lets us map pressures on biodiversity, hold extractive industries to account, and defend what’s left of wild Tasmania.

This is how we combine science, community, and local knowledge to protect the future of the devils.

Geoneon wins Top Tasmanian Tech Innovator at the 2025 TasICT Awards for its AI-powered climate resilience tools — supporting smarter decisions with satellite data.

14/07/2025

Braddon Candidates Melissa Wells and Gatty Burnett Call for Universal Digital Harm Minimisation Strategy

Tasmania is on the brink of a digital transformation, but without proactive safeguards, technology can deepen the very harms it promises to solve, using proven harm‑minimisation tools from gambling reform into aged care, disability support, and child protection services to fight abuse.

We have the technology and the obligation to protect our most vulnerable before harm occurs. Pokies harm‑reduction tech showed us what’s possible. Now it’s time to apply the same rigour to every sector that touches Tasmanians at risk.

Digital maturity isn’t just about faster service delivery. It’s about embedding compassion, dignity, and accountability into the very code that runs our public systems.

A Roadmap for Ethical, Technology‑Enabled Care

• Universal Digital Harm Minimisation Strategy – Extends the best‑practice tools used to track and curb gambling addiction to minimise harm in aged care, disability, and child services.

• Partnership with BETA – Leverages the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government to ensure every intervention is evidence‑based and independently evaluated.

• WorkRight23 – Deploys risk‑profiling and real‑time alerting to identify unsafe practices across institutions.

Melissa Wells and Gatty Burnett are pushing for a universal digital harm minimisation strategy for aged care, disability and child services. Tasmania’s commitment to becoming a digitally mature and inclusive society must include proactive protections for those most at risk of harm: our children, people living with disability, and older Tasmanians.

This policy framework positions Tasmania as a national leader in ethical, technology‑enabled protection of vulnerable people. By adapting harm‑minimisation strategies from gambling to human services, partnering with BETA to lead evidence‑based innovation, and embedding digital detection tools like WorkRight23 into the state’s regulatory infrastructure, the government can move from reactive child and adult protection to proactive, systems‑level prevention. This is what it means to build digital maturity.

Everyone deserves to be safe and protected.

13/07/2025

Braddon Candidates Melissa Wells and Gatty Burnett Back Smart Pokies Technology to Minimise Harm

Braddon candidates Melissa Wells and Gatty Burnett have declared their support for the rollout of behavioral monitoring technologies in poker machines, aligning the reform with their broader campaign commitment to community safety and harm minimisation, particularly in the protection of vulnerable children.

Technology that can identify patterns of addictive behaviour before harm is entrenched isn’t just a gambling reform issue, it’s part of a holistic public safety strategy.

We support evidence-based tools that reduce harm before it starts, whether in a gaming venue or a child care centre.

The candidates argue that harm minimisation in the pokies sector reflects a need for a more sophisticated approach to risk profiling, one that should extend to monitoring predator behaviours, especially those who target children and vulnerable people in care.

We’re backing pokies tech that uses behavioural cues to flag problem gambling because the same logic should apply in other areas, especially child protection and justice.

Predictive modelling and early intervention can save lives, whether it’s stopping a person from losing their home at the pokies or identifying predator grooming patterns before a child is harmed.

The refusal of major, minor parties and independents to discuss harm minimisation technologies across sectors from gaming to child protection, represents a broader failure in risk governance.

It’s about transparency and accountability in the systems that are supposed to protect us.

As candidates for Braddon, we are calling for consistent technology standards across all high-risk sectors, including gaming, out-of-home care, and disability services.

We argue for real-time oversight, BETA capabilities and public reporting mechanisms such as the Truth Tasmania Project to ensure these systems are being used to prevent harm.

https://www.gattyburnett.com.au/post/truth-tasmania-initiative-anonymous-corruption-portal

10/07/2025

Geoscape: The Smart Infrastructure Tool Tasmania Can’t Afford to Ignore

Candidates for Braddon, Gatty Burnett and Melissa Wells, are calling for urgent public access to and transparency in the use of Geoscape. Australia’s national geospatial intelligence platform in shaping Tasmania’s energy future, housing, insurance, and environmental protection.

Geoscape is a powerful national asset. It maps buildings, vegetation, rooftop solar potential, flood risks, and even transmission corridors.

As Tasmania braces for the multi-billion-dollar Marinus Link and related transmission line expansions, Geoscape can navigate, how these projects are planned and monitored.

We can see in real time how new transmission corridors will cut through properties, bushland, and even habitat critical to the Tasmanian devil. Why isn’t this data being made transparent to every impacted resident?

Geoscape’s capabilities include:

• Mapping transmission line easements and proximity to homes or schools

• Identifying bushfire risk areas for insurance and emergency planning

• Optimising placement of rooftop solar based on shading and roof slope

• Assessing housing availability and urban expansion needs

• Monitoring habitat loss for endangered species like the Tasmanian devil

• Informing insurance premium equity based on environmental vulnerability

These are all public interest applications, yet Geoscape operates under a self-funding commercial model, meaning big consultancies and developers can use the tool to front-run decision-making, while the public is left in the dark.

We are calling for:

• Full public disclosure of Geoscape overlays used in Marinus and transmission planning

• Free access to Geoscape data for communities, researchers, and councils

• A national strategy to integrate Geoscape with biodiversity and insurance risk models

• Regulatory obligations for all major energy and housing projects to publish spatial impact maps

• Real-time watermarks and lobbying transparency to track who is influencing the data narratives

Whether you’re a farmer near a proposed transmission tower, a renter battling housing insecurity, or someone trying to install solar, this data matters.

Geoscape should serve us, not be privatised behind paywalls.

It’s time to restore democratic access to infrastructure intelligence and stop letting private consultants and billionaire contractors dictate the spatial future of Tasmania.

08/07/2025

Braddon Deserves Its Fair Share: Melissa Wells and Gatty Burnett Call for a Space Resource Rent Tax Tasmania has given enough. It’s time to be shown the money.

Melissa Wells and Gatty Burnett of Tasmanians Now are calling for a bold new approach to secure Tasmania’s future, starting with taxing billionaires, military contractors, and space profiteers who exploit our resources and airspace without returning their fair share.

https://www.gattyburnett.com.au/post/policy-position-5g-militarisation-and-the-case-for-a-space-resource-rent-tax

Braddon deserves its fair share. While billionaires and multinational corporations grow rich off military contracts and speculative space ventures, Tasmanians are left footing the bill for crumbling services and rising living costs.

The duo is demanding the introduction of a Space Resource Rent Tax, a fair and targeted levy on companies profiting from Tasmania’s strategic location, airspace, and resources.

Tasmania’s unique geography is increasingly vital to military and commercial space industries, but locals are seeing little benefit.

Melissa Wells and Gatty Burnett argue that taxing these industries would finally deliver the revenue needed for investment in regional jobs, infrastructure, and essential services.

We don’t exist to subsidise billionaires. We exist to build strong communities. This is about fairness, sovereignty, and a future where Tasmanians aren’t left behind.

Tasmania is grappling with a significant political and fiscal crisis following the passage of a no-confidence vote.

We’re drawing a line. If you want to profit off Tasmania, you must contribute to Tasmania.