Category Articles - Personal

Over $18 million lost on pokies in July alone

More of Arnold's War ...

Prison smoking bans deters crime

Devine retribution ... John Gay, Working Class Hero

Rick Pilkington's Rogues Gallery ...

$100m-plus lost on pokies over first six months, Saffire blazes ...

Where is the document Senator Abetz?

Dr Chrissie Pickin – who do you think you're kidding?

After 25 years, John Inglis signs-off and clocks in with the Queensland Police

Mental Tribunal offer rejected - Saeed Dezfouli

Roadshow reports Animal Welfare Revolution sweeping across Asia

No social licence. The Tamar Valley Pulp Mill, irretrievably damaged.

Larissa does New York ... and why it matters

Arsenic and Lead Contamination in Tasmanian West Coast Mining Town

Dunc's Fond Farewell ...

Gerrity's hypocricy on asylum seekers

The ever moving pendulum of gender balance

'Don't lock up refugees in Tasmania'

Remembering Leon

Australia on the turn

Gillard's asylum stance 'risks losing votes to Greens'

Fundraiser in memory of kayaker

Launch Report/exposure mental health abuse/Proposal

'Brighton bypass fiasco lessons must be learned'

Equity and ecological sustainability rather than Corporation control

Premier defends A-G's voluntary euthanasia strategy

Rewards for reports of animal cruelty

Mental Tribunal deception exposed by audio record

Power price rises worry business, welfare groups

An Open Letter To Bob Brown And Christine Milne

Pokies review wants $1 bet limit

The forestry assault

ABC fails in bid to vanish Andy

Barnaby Drake responds ...

Dropped on the moon

I am grateful to Duncan Kerr ...

The Davo Picture Show

A brutal rally for housing

Premier Bartlett continues to ignore community representation

Public Trust - who do you believe?

Alison Bleaney nominated for Pride of Australia ...

Why has Liberal Party backed down on $1 on maxium bet limit

Good riddance, John Gay

Ties, Hugs and Men

Life on the Edge

Gaming a super resources tax

Abbott lashed for cruel and inhumane refugee plan

What do you know about the World’s Greatest Culture?

Dear Editor: Dr David Leaman's unpublished letters to Mercury

I'm blessed to have enjoyed such a time

Allan Gillespie: A life of zest and gusto

All about Cameron Tapp

Everyday people's photos

Parliamentary inquiry best response to Church discrimination demand

The Davo Picture Show

Clamped!

Here comes Jessica

Spleen (A list of things that piss me off...)

Rally against uni attacks

Confessions of an old barrow boy

Uni students rally today after street attacks

Forest workers quit state. Greens, Wildos blamed

Rudd's gross inhumanity

Nature turns

Tassie author in national Gay Marriage debate book

Staying Mum

Lost generation ... ?

Tasmania, I wish you well ... Goodbye

Mental patient challenges abuse

Handover of the cows ...

We must fight the good fight

Toxics Group Rejects Toxicology Reports on Poisoned Rosebery Residents

To Richard Tuffin, 30

Agent Orange Trust ... last of the herd

Union anger over mill workers' aid

RED CROSS GAY BLOOD BAN REVIEW WELCOMED

Gotcha!

A tribute to an early pioneer

Bartlett's fury

Outsider-Artist Bobby-z's tribute to Bolivia's Potosi miners

Wilkie: The pokie factor

I plan to establish a fighting fund

Premier Bartlett, you should be impeached

Peter Gutwein says: "Piss off…" to Two Constituents

Dear Ms Giddings: They deserve much better treatment from you

Floor mops and the appalling Akerman

Vandals 'frighten' Gunns chairman

Tasmania: Still the most homophobic

TAS PARTIES GIVE COMMITMENT TO TACKLE ANTI-GAY DISCRIMINATION

Japan charges Pete Bethune

The bright shining beacon ...

Where is the good in humankind?

Police persecution of trade union activists

Pokies: Misleading and untrue

Gunns under fire over Gay share sale

Why The Pokies (and Andrew Wilkie) matter

Pokies 'economy killers'

Bobby-z trapped in Chile

How do we know?

Training wheels on Will Hodgman

The fear of retribution that stalks Tasmanians

Oh, for heaven's sake!

Clearfelling, chemicals ... and Devonport's water

Recollections and Prognostications of an Octogenarian

TT's Tasmanian of the Year on Australian Story

Human Rights And Public Protest

TASSIE FACES MARDI GRAS BAN

Bartlett Hawks veto claim

Colleagues praise 'tireless champion' Napier

In the face of such apathy I am gobsmacked

Wilkie: The difference between the Greens and me

Brightside has two orphans needing a home

Greens' pokie-free Tasmania pledge

GREENS’ POKIE-FREE TASMANIA COMMITMENT

A brilliant exposition

Virgin Blue...an invitation “ to tell it like it is”

Fire alert farce

Cundall for court

$220m+ lost on the pokies

CONFIRMED - $220+ MILLION LOST ON POKIES IN 2009 ALONE

The Last Post

Small mining town divided over plans to sue local mine

Gunns 20 trial next week

No Labor pollies have returned my calls. Please pressure the pollies.

The Rockefeller mystery

The message from Sturgo ...

The Examiner at it again

Slavish adherence to the corporate master

Fixing opposition from community groups

Rosebery: The poisoning of Kuba and Storm

Child pornography and the artist…the new puritanism

TASMANIAN LOSSES ON POKIES PASS $200 MILLION FOR 2009

Some cheer for the New Year

Greens' Fairer Energy Concessions Policy Welcomed

We need to split religion from spirituality

Ramadan Xmas

Stop supporting Gunns

Neglect of food sources has chooks home to roost

TT Tasmanian of the Year

Clean feed: dirty deed

Alison, You Rock!

Pump House for Franklin

Something rotten in the state of Tasmania

Duncan Kerr couldn’t keep the possums out!

Rainbow Dinner & Awards

Heart attack strikes art centre's troubled tenant

Oakdale Services hosts Successful Forum on Ageing and Disability

Senator Bilyk celebrates International Day of People with a Disability

Why the pulp mill should not be built

Get a life people keep telling me ... I'd love to

A tribute to Joe

Compassion, legislation and human rights

Hostages: the real heroes

We accuse Minister O’Byrne of cultural vandalism

ABORIGINES CONFRONT BULLDOZERS AT BRIGHTON

Tasmanian men urged to swear

Starts with "T" ends with "A"

Eric Reece ... and the paradox at the heart of our future

Lieutenant-Governor, David Collins, back in the historic viewscape

Protest the pulp mill ... and get banned from Salamanca, the waterfront and Battery Point

Win for Injured Workers

Origin of the Species ... ?

Wilkie on SBS tomorrow

‘Closing the Gap’: Addressing substance misuse health issues for Aboriginal communities

The Apologies

We are debasing and devaluing Tasmanian Times

St David's Cathedral & the grave of the first Lieutenant-Governor

Tasmanians to protest Rudd’s treatment of Refugees

Tassie tourism: "extraordinarily hypocritical"

Profit jump for Federal

A colonial evil that perpetuated and increased itself

Crusty's Corner ... being the occasional ravings of an elderly gent

Salamanca: A wry comparison to Watergate ...

Improved Workers Compensation Package Welcomed

GAMING CHANGES SHOULD HAVE GONE FURTHER

DYING WITH DIGNITY BILL VOTE

VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA BILL TO BE DEBATED THIS WEDNESDAY

Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath babbling?

We win!

A day with a hyperactive leftist leader, Bolivia’s Morales

Flailing MP calls it a day

MLC on child porn charges

Crusty’s corner

Second Best Not Good Enough

POKIE LOSSES CONTINUE TO CLIMB

Behind the mask…picturing politicians…

Totally Against Plantations: Who's misleading who?

What makes a dissident stand up?

Advance Tasmania where?

Police probe Gay home smoke-bomb

Snapshots of the Tamar

Malawi windmill boy with big fans

$147,909, 399 LOST ON POKIES IN JUST EIGHT MONTHS

Ashamed to be a human being

POKIES STRIP $19, 018, 855 FROM TASMANIANS DURING AUGUST

Mrs Maree Blacker

CONDOLENCES TO THE BLACKER FAMILY

Helping TGLRG

Love and Freedom in Van Diemen’s Land

Don Davey: My Life

Snapshots of the Tamar

Tale of Two Houses

Mr Ferguson’s response - Rees Housing Amendment Bill

I thought Australia was indeed the lucky country.

TAS SOCIAL INCLUSION STRATEGY FIRST IN AUS TO ACKNOWLEDGE GLBTI EXCLUSION

The painful tyranny of time

Woman Bites Dog: Unequal Affairs in Australian Politics

A trip to Latvia

How did we Survive?

TIMBER COMMUNITIES AUSTRALIA APOLOGISES FOR HARMFUL ELECTION ADVERTISING

Bazza says sorry

Only one decade

State of the world

Perception

Bringing the animals home

The private school

Secrets behind push for pulp mill

Don Davey says

Picturing an ethical economy

Consumer win: my triumph over Virgin Blue’s incompetence

Goodbye responsible government

Look on the Brightside

Fidel - Hopefully I am mistaken

“Yes we can!” – Tasmanian Climate Challenge

$128, 890, 544 lost on pokies in just 7 months

Jan Cameron: Hero

Pokies claim another victim

The way they were

Rudd comforts Tasmanian MP Jodie Campbell

Fight for busts

It's our culture, sick as it is

Bashing victim Saul Latham speaks

The facts of legal matters

My sober innocent son's face was smashed at Salamanca early yesterday. The Police did nothing ...

Forestry on the throne

Libs: Anything to avoid a tribunal hearing

Jorgen and Norah on the Ross Bridge

'Return rare Aboriginal busts to Aboriginal community'

Brethren members apologise for election hate ad

Brilliant Wilkie, brilliant

They've been fighting for 26 years. They're still battling

Woodworker's Response

Quote

Counting the cost of pokies

Mr Punch agrees to withdraw his Code of Conduct complaint

Pig farmer fined over animal cruelty

53 Reasons to change things around

Frank Strie explains what he believes in

The Growing Sadness of our Political Process

Stop raving and step forward

Doctors warns Tasmanian death bill too restrictive

Free media versus traditional press

It does not take a genius to see a wedge here ...

Applause for Labor

Crawford's tribute to Keith Welsh

“Finding Home far away from Home”

Veiled Reality

Keep gossip out of politics

Rivers of Blood flow in Reykjavik!

The bogan undercurrent (2)

Flamingos Bar: Dear Pastor Muller

A Letter from China

Statement from Nick McKim and Cassy O'Connor

Dear Mr Burke

Euthanasia?

Crowd welcomes Nitschke

Dear Hans Drielsma - A message from one of your "shareholders"

Thanks again, Bob

A noble heart ... but no Nobel Prize

Dear Premier Bartlett

Paula's tale of woe

Euthanasia bill faces more scrutiny

A risk to dying with dignity ...

Death, being good and the point of life

Profile of Metiria Turei - NZ MP

Jorgen Jorgenson's Liberation of Icelandic in 1809 - A Bicentenary

Anti Discrimination Complaint

The day all hell broke loose

Jon needs a home

Not surprising, yet mostly deplorable ...

What the report says ...

The profound effect of Allan Villiers

A cynical grab for revenue

The dispute

Only a fool refuses to learn new things or change

Kinglake ...

Brenda Rosser: 12 years of pain

Prepared for fire ... you've got to be joking

Forestry – letter to Kevin Rudd

The First Fleet Whores on Australia’s Invasion Day

Tasmania 2009 -- Plus ça change... plus c'est la même chose?

The darkness descends

Why I tried to kill myself

My dad Bob

Death in Antarctica

Pedantic Archbishop Doyle

Gibney and the rednecks

Fascist Benedict

Strengthen inclusion

Lara's sacrifice

Webster passes on

The Salamanca Apology

Coffee!

Every step of the way

Private no longer

Boom, Boom

French Premier Francois Fillon: We're on "the edge of the abyss"

The Anti-Discrimination Act: why it’s important and how it’s threatened

Pipeline parallels to Tasmania

To Whom it must concern

Political views 'all in the mind'

Walk with Theresa

Wriedt relinguished: What Paula says

Musings on Walker Corporation’s approach

Australian Letter of the Year

One hundred days, but who's counting?

The sale is off ...

I love coming home

Wriedt: a timeline

People are hurting enough

Bruce French: Hero

Dad paid off Askin and lent Packer money

Tribute to Guy

Investigate Cardinal Pell

Startling figures lead to search forum

The long road home

The legacy of Guy Parsons

A Cry From the Heart

On The Beach

Guy Parsons is 60

No taxation without recognition

Possession

Gay entrepreneur quits

Love and marriage

Out of the trees and into the light

Portraits of activists

John's pain

Tassie girl

Rudie and North Korea

The Bloke is back

A step beyond

Don Davey: my life

Yardstick

My walk to work

Doubletake

John Howard's mistress?

A beekeeping slideshow

The self-important species

All that is left

Sacrifice Zone circa 2007

Don's mail

What we lose

The tyranny of stacking food!

Brethren: Woe to you, Hypocrites

Go the FULL MONTY to stop the pulp mill

Fear and Loathing on The Mountain

Super Annoyed retires from Tasmanian Times!

Winter chills

Other ways to live

Why would anyone choose Tasmania?

My life-changing experience

Why I like Hobart

Anzac Day

Help Kenyi

Spring Bay bravado

Jane's life

My dad ... and unions

The overflowing bounty

My friend, Margaret

Careful with that email, Eugene …

Terror in Zimbabwe

A sickening rape

Irynej Skira: A tribute

Psychopath (2)

Psychopath

Crusades (2)

Franklin Graham's mediaeval crusade

Come clean

Despair...

The creative class

A queer view of Tasmania's past

This is my last letter ...

Politicians vie with journalists and used car salesmen in the pits of public esteem

A pillar cracked?

The Accident: a true story

Eye for a bargain

The Birth

Resumption of Duty Day

Cornelia Rau could be me

Shame it kills you

Arise, Prince of Wales

Philip Wolfhagen: Outstanding Artist

Latham the victim