Category Articles - Personal
Over $18 million lost on pokies in July alone
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
Gerrity's hypocricy on asylum seekers
The ever moving pendulum of gender balance
'Don't lock up refugees in Tasmania'
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
ABC fails in bid to vanish Andy
I am grateful to Duncan Kerr ...
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
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Dear Editor: Dr David Leaman's unpublished letters to Mercury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
Parliamentary inquiry best response to Church discrimination demand
Spleen (A list of things that piss me off...)
Confessions of an old barrow boy
Uni students rally today after street attacks
Forest workers quit state. Greens, Wildos blamed
Tassie author in national Gay Marriage debate book
Tasmania, I wish you well ... Goodbye
Mental patient challenges abuse
Toxics Group Rejects Toxicology Reports on Poisoned Rosebery Residents
Agent Orange Trust ... last of the herd
Union anger over mill workers' aid
RED CROSS GAY BLOOD BAN REVIEW WELCOMED
Outsider-Artist Bobby-z's tribute to Bolivia's Potosi miners
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
Where is the good in humankind?
Police persecution of trade union activists
Gunns under fire over Gay share sale
Why The Pokies (and Andrew Wilkie) matter
Training wheels on Will Hodgman
The fear of retribution that stalks Tasmanians
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
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
Virgin Blue...an invitation “ to tell it like it is”
CONFIRMED - $220+ MILLION LOST ON POKIES IN 2009 ALONE
Small mining town divided over plans to sue local mine
No Labor pollies have returned my calls. Please pressure the pollies.
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
Greens' Fairer Energy Concessions Policy Welcomed
We need to split religion from spirituality
Neglect of food sources has chooks home to roost
Something rotten in the state of Tasmania
Duncan Kerr couldn’t keep the possums out!
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
Compassion, legislation and human rights
We accuse Minister O’Byrne of cultural vandalism
ABORIGINES CONFRONT BULLDOZERS AT BRIGHTON
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
‘Closing the Gap’: Addressing substance misuse health issues for Aboriginal communities
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"
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
VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA BILL TO BE DEBATED THIS WEDNESDAY
Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath babbling?
A day with a hyperactive leftist leader, Bolivia’s Morales
POKIE LOSSES CONTINUE TO CLIMB
Behind the mask…picturing politicians…
Totally Against Plantations: Who's misleading who?
What makes a dissident stand up?
Police probe Gay home smoke-bomb
Malawi windmill boy with big fans
$147,909, 399 LOST ON POKIES IN JUST EIGHT MONTHS
POKIES STRIP $19, 018, 855 FROM TASMANIANS DURING AUGUST
CONDOLENCES TO THE BLACKER FAMILY
Love and Freedom in Van Diemen’s Land
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
Woman Bites Dog: Unequal Affairs in Australian Politics
TIMBER COMMUNITIES AUSTRALIA APOLOGISES FOR HARMFUL ELECTION ADVERTISING
Secrets behind push for pulp mill
Consumer win: my triumph over Virgin Blue’s incompetence
Goodbye responsible government
Fidel - Hopefully I am mistaken
“Yes we can!” – Tasmanian Climate Challenge
$128, 890, 544 lost on pokies in just 7 months
Rudd comforts Tasmanian MP Jodie Campbell
It's our culture, sick as it is
Bashing victim Saul Latham speaks
My sober innocent son's face was smashed at Salamanca early yesterday. The Police did nothing ...
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
They've been fighting for 26 years. They're still battling
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
Doctors warns Tasmanian death bill too restrictive
Free media versus traditional press
It does not take a genius to see a wedge here ...
Crawford's tribute to Keith Welsh
“Finding Home far away from Home”
Rivers of Blood flow in Reykjavik!
Flamingos Bar: Dear Pastor Muller
Statement from Nick McKim and Cassy O'Connor
Dear Hans Drielsma - A message from one of your "shareholders"
A noble heart ... but no Nobel Prize
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
Not surprising, yet mostly deplorable ...
The profound effect of Allan Villiers
Only a fool refuses to learn new things or change
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?
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
Political views 'all in the mind'
Wriedt relinguished: What Paula says
Musings on Walker Corporation’s approach
One hundred days, but who's counting?
Dad paid off Askin and lent Packer money
Startling figures lead to search forum
No taxation without recognition
Out of the trees and into the light
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!
Why would anyone choose Tasmania?
Careful with that email, Eugene …
Franklin Graham's mediaeval crusade
A queer view of Tasmania's past
Politicians vie with journalists and used car salesmen in the pits of public esteem














