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Election Comment ... and candidates
Bentley 45: The Bag Lady, Amy and the Pigeons
Travels without a donkey: El Salvador (2)
The big power subsidies the free-marketeers won’t talk about
Liberals pledge to blow some cash on forestry PR
A cry from the heart ... and a plea for help
Travels without a donkey: El Salvador (1)
Bt Toxin and Imidacloprid from ‘Lethal Trees’
We’re crying out here that there's something in our water
Who gets to meet Premier David Bartlett?
'Avoid pointing finger at Bleaney'. 'A very easy interview'. 'Assuming snooze position now ...'
What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You – Environmental Injustice In Tasmania
David Bartlett’s Appointments Diary: Meeting with the Loggers
David Bartlett’s Appointments Diary: A Close Encounter with the Freedom of Information Act
West Coast Council's anger over mine funds reallocation to foxes!
Forests Plan: Barlett's blind acceptance is staggering
Zero Tolerance for Any New Tasmanian Pulp Mill
Greatest moral issue of our time
Oh, what a tangled web we weave ...
The Zombie Contagion for Plantation Isle
Collared ... a night at the cricket
The world will not stop warming
"Anti-forestry" and "anti-logging": Dressing Industry Propaganda Up As Fact
Travels without a donkey: Panama
McKim checks out the Huon’s historic canal
What role for anonymous sources in election reporting?
Health Workforce Australia's first board appointed
Tasmanian Times Traffic Report
Global Trade Imbalances as a Statistical Artifact
Don't You Dare Look Back, Warns Bartlett
Bugger history, the environment and aesthetics
Worst cancer death rate in the Commonwealth
Travels without a donkey: Bogota
A Tale of Two “Leaks” … and Bartlett in Apology Mode
Foxes: Fantastic feral evaders
Remembering the 1970s' Energy Crisis
Fox skull found in Central Highlands
Emptiness in the Sky without Diamonds
Bartlett Launches Ploy to Shunt Greens off Debating Stage
Pipeline threat to Franklin history: Huon Valley Guessing Games (17)
Forest Industry Plan: Just another glossy edition...
Replacing food production with trees
Will Hodgman and Reaganomics ...
Whatever Happened to Forestry Tasmania's "Battered Briefcase"?
Chardonnay Socialists, tradies desert Labor. Eric's in control ...Duh!
Zombie politics, the self-perpetuating mediocracy
Scott McLean's walk in the park: What I filmed ...
Who's donating to Tasmanian political parties?
Stuffed into parking meters ...
The Hugh Cudlipp lecture: Does journalism exist?
Llewellyn: Minister of State for Gunns
HCC: Timber talks, heightened sensitivities
Like maggots engorged on a roadside carcass
The currency quarrel with China is a dangerous distraction
Huon Valley Guessing Games (16): Non-core, non-core, Mr Mayor?
We must attempt the impossible
Tasmania's 'silent killer' on the rise
Last snap of the Old Dragon's tale [sic]?
What of the 20 year Wood Supply Agreement that underpinned Forestry Tasmania
The Oil and Money Straitjacket
The Federal Police should be asked to investigate
We need to split religion from spirituality
Welcome to the Third World, Tasmania
Jim Wilkinson's serious omission ...
A response to Evangelical Atheism
Christmas Eve Fox Report: Shit happens, but still no foxes!
Health head's travel bill a costly one for taxpayers
Flogging logging in the Age of Climate Change
Gunns' spray and the clean, green facade
El Salvadoran leftist: ‘You must be with the people’
Huon Valley Guessing Games (15): Egg Island threat
Build the largest petition in history ...
Building the largest petition in history
Who'd Pay for Rupert Murdoch's Climate Change Skepticism?
Oz Opera visit cancels Ten Days on the Island
HCC: A slowly crumbling ton of bricks
Stop the subsidies to stop the conflict
Served over a Right Wing bed of hardmen
Huon Valley Guessing Games (14)
Ready, set, go ... 6.30pm Strathlynn tomorrow
Huon Valley Guessing games (13): Franklin's Challenge
ANTI-DISCRIMINATION FORUM TOLD CATHOLIC SCHOOL BIAS EXEMPTION 'A BIGOTS' CHARTER'
Kingston Bypass: A poor Nation Building project
NW jobs and the pulp mill: The gross failure of Rockliff, Green, Kons, Best and Whiteley
Seeking to end Conflict: Comment thread closed
Deadliest UK hospitals identified in damning report
Conversation with a Councillor
A comfortable lounge tilt armchair
TT's Strathlynn celebration: What you are getting ... and what you are missing ...
Bruny pain halts Tasmanian Times
Tasmania: The Word, the Secret and the Way
One of the most spectacular political backflips since John Howard's GST
Why Tasmania needs a community-based eco-toxicology research fund
Byelections may indicate popularity of Liberal position on the Climate
Compassion, legislation and human rights
Is social media killing the web as we know it?
The possibility of minority government
New email skirmish in teachers' war
Dear Premier Gay and Mister Bartlett
El Salvador - Ex - guerilla in politics, visiting Australia
Protest the pulp mill ... and get banned from Salamanca, the waterfront and Battery Point
Looking for a cool change? Tasmania gets some 2020 vision
Teachers Union Elections - AEU moves to Control Debate
DHHS: Dame Catherine was not paid a fee
Joker 3 Mill or what? A Battle of Ideas
Eco-Toxicology Research Fund Public Launch
Tas Eco-Toxicology Research Fund Public Launch
Huon Valley Guessing Games (12)
Power Sharing Government for Tasmania? What works, what doesn’t work
Battlelines drawn in teachers' war
It's sickening to see NHS health funding so misappropriated by bureaucrats
Rupe v. ABC's Mark Scott: Two visions of Media's future
A discombobulatory translator for the buzzspeak of climate change
She's got some power, this Sarah Day
David Bartlett’s Melbourne Cup Day 2009
The Joker in the Tas-Times pack
Bartlett's Natural Law of Government: That Spin is inversely proportional to transparency
Final proof that the Bruny Ultra is good for you ...
The familiar could soon vanish
Shutdown. No more answers from the Health Department
It's time to slay the bureaucratic monster that's ruining the NHS
Why good bloggers are good for print
The Dame's Tasmanian trips: More questions
Burma crackdown on ethnic nationalities
Why the newspaper is copping so much flak
The thrashing of the mediasaurs
Dame Catherine: More questions
A subtle weaving of passion and despair
Statewatch on Sunday - Some pulp protesters shredding credibility
The Future of Journalism -- Stage II?
The Future of Journalism – Blueprint for Progress
The traditional media has ignored it all. Why are the shutters down?
Death throes of the Old Dragon and the woeful state of Tasmanian mainstream media ...
$40,000 to fly out Dame Catherine
The Examiner and Lennon: Contempt for due process
Shame on The Examiner for being complicit in this ruse
Dame Catherine joins health bureaucrats' flying visits
The Big Picture: Climate Change
The Chronicle (44): Like a fox
Nicklason: Above and beyond cant and media cowardice
The Government simply appears to have stopped listening to the people ...
An Open Letter to Peaceful Community Protesters
Social Engineering in Australia
Huon Valley Guessing Games (11)
Another letter goes unpublished
The new meaning of service in Tasmania
Watch Sting sing about Saving the Rainforests
Beaconsfield: 21 arrests; rabbits in the spotlight
DHSS staff’s international trip
Dairy farmers need help now; this situation is more than “awkward”, Minister
A pungent exploration of the idea that our politicians are somehow worth huge salary increases ...
The Chronicle (42): Kunzea up yer khyber
Bartlett – A Real Corporate Man
The Chronicle (41): Life and death at the typeface
Bartlett at Beaconsfield: Simulation of Democracy
We also need people who can read a simple set of accounts
The Great Pulp Mill Swindle: A Chronicle of Deceit
Reality versus reality , a meditation on the modern world
Served in a terra cotta steamer
The Chronicle (40): Referee Turner
Huon Valley Guessing Games (10)
Accounting for Dummies ... A look at Forestry Tasmania
Moving on - time for a breakthrough
Periodic bursts of high-frequency current
“Yes we can!” – Tasmanian Climate Challenge
Forestry Tasmania: further definitive analysis ...
GP's full-frontal assault on Tasmania's 'carrier pigeon' health system
ALP: A severe malaise that requires urgent correction
Plantations, tax breaks and rortery ...
'Rudd Government delivers a massive blow to Fox Taskforce'
Tasmanian Political Rot: The PMAA Revisited
The incompetence of Tony Burke
Fox: Yet another of State Labor’s political scandals
Huon Valley Guessing Games (9)
How many times will Saul Eslake be bothered to spell it all out?
Will Hodgman: Is this just a collection of random thoughts?
Why Labor will lose the 2010 election
Wild ideas for a better Australia
Misinformation represented as genuine news stories ...
An open letter to Scott McLean CFMEU and putative Labor candidate for Tasmania
The Growing Sadness of our Political Process
Unhealthy decision making in our Health system
Pembroke: A worthy collection of 'normal people'
Seeing and believing are different things and they are often wrong
Huon Valley Guessing Games (8)
Bust Me Gall and Break Me Neck - Patsy Adam Smith 1968
Taking shorter showers doesn't cut it
PAL Policy: Lazy, hopeless LibLabs
An alleged campaign of covert censorship
Chronicle (39): End of an era/ Start of an era
This thread is now closed to comment ...
Huon Valley Guessing Games (7)
Negotiation with extreme prejudice
Foxes: The numbers and sex ratios have changed again!
The Tasmania Tomorrow education disaster
Michael Field: There is a lot at stake in Pembroke
Tasmanian Fox Reward is extended for the 6th time
Are our politicians real people?
Foxes: Case closed or case ongoing?
The curious case of the health contracts
'Time to ditch climate policies'
'Bogans' are the most important catalyst for social change
FEA: From bad to worse; MIS trials and tribulations
Why MIS is Australia's biggest scam
A triumph for absurdity, greed and stupidity
Lies, damn lies and Forestry Tasmania statistics
Chance on Main: No sporting chance in this game of buckpassing
Flanagan at the Sydney Writers' Festival
Political parties based on dogma cannot properly represent us
The world doesn't seem to care ...
DHSS staff's international tour
Huon Valley Guessing Games (6)
The curious case of Dr Raj Mattu and Tasmanian Health Department Head David Roberts
Voodoo and the Felmingham Report
Picking losers under the guise of picking winners
Bartlett's outrageous hypocrisy
Tasmania ... beautiful one day, clearfelled the next
Maybe a GENUINE person with a REAL name will catch or kill a fox in Tasmania
Old Wood Is New Coal as Polluters Embrace Carbon-Eating Trees
Huon Valley Guessing Games (5)
Tasmanian Times needs your help
Flanagan's unparalleled attack
Michael Field: A Hung Parliament
The real issue for Minister Giddings
Labor-Liberal amalgamation: Tasmania’s Future?
Huon Valley Guessing Games (4)
Diminishing the standing of Parliament
Guessing Games in the Huon Valley (3)
The unfolding of a pandemic (2)
The Artifice of the Federal Budget
Validity of the Pulp Mill Permit
Gunns' approval for mill 'invalid'
Guessing games in the Huon Valley
The unfolding of a pandemic (1) - How ‘pig flu’ learned to fly
A compliant press, a vision rooted hard into the past ...
Elimination of all democratic rights
Why are we failing so abysmally?
Questions for a serious fox biologist
Monopoly - not just a board game
Facing the Future: A Greg Suitor update to Peter Henning
Tassie Times goes (even more) global!x
David Bartlett and Gunns' pipelines
Some Tasmanian nurses – An Anzac Story
Anzac 2009: Thinking about memorialisation and commemoration
Rural communities bear the brunt
Planning Tasmania ... a place to know your place
Kelly Slater, Quicksilver team up with Sea Shepherd
Rupert's wife and Joel Fitzgibbon
Hobart Airport - the full monty
Reject this latest piece of advanced folly
Rusted-on voters are flat-earthers
Update on the Trowunna Facial Tumour
The nonsense over the latest devil disease outbreak
The makings of a rivetting show ...
A Tasmanian Wildlife Park experiences another outbreak of facial tumours in its devils
The perverted, anti-democratic caucus system
Caucus Curse: A Blind for Labor-Liberal Corporatism
Compound 1080 (Foxoff™) to ‘eradicate’ Tasmanian foxes - Is this realistic?
The Struggle for Our Future (Part 2)
Rally for Action Against Canal Estates - Speech by Dr Pete Hay
Forget the lights ... shut down the friggin' computer
A global 'national security' issue lurks at Bangladesh's border
At the request of the Governor ...
Forensic Scatology (2) - a reply to Dr Tony Peacock (CEO, Invasive Animal CRC)
Wondrous Wandiligong ... Crass Kempton?
Forensic Scatology - collect enough shit...
‘Annual Report’ on the state of the Tasmanian economy
Break away from the rigid caucus mentality
Pakistan – is this the next war zone?
A Grand Experiment in Economics
Facing the Future: A conversation between Peter Henning and Greg Suitor
The Politics and Science of Foxes in Tasmania: The role of scepticism
A red wine and balsamic reduction ...
Tasmania’s new ALP neo-liberal generation
Tarkine road and the impact on devils
The real nature of our 'financial' crisis
Questions Huon Valley Council must answer
Don’t get more staff, get fewer managers ...
Five healthy devils disappeared. 1080?
ABA: Violating a basic survival rule
CO2 rise in atmosphere accelerates in 2008
Open Letter from Concerned Scientists on the Tarkine Road and the Tasmanian Devil
Bartlett's plan: Here we go again ...
No 'back to normal' for our economy
Great Southern to quit Tasmania
Tasmania Welcomes the Return of the Steve Irwin to Hobart
Media is creating a bipolar disorder
Ivan: Tell the electors of Windermere
The Premier who moved the devils from endangered to extinct?
Into the breach, fellow councillors
A political shift - Burma’s democracy movement
Eating less meat could cut climate costs
We need a better understanding
The way it is done in Tasmania
Sea Shepherd Returns From the Whale Wars
How the Rich are destroying the earth
No-one would be foolish enough
Power fantasies of ALP heavyweights
The State Budget Update: Panic or Celebrate?
The Battle for the Whales in the Ross Sea
Not kind, not clever, not connected
Chronicle (38): Taxi for Mr Bentley
Garrett’s pulp mill approval and sovereign risk: Baloney?
Foxes: Weapons of Mass Deception
Great Southern heads further south
Special Treatment for Plantation Growers
The best novel this (past) year, or several to come ...
Sea Shepherd Clashes With Whaling Fleet in Australian Waters
Financial Crisis Strikes Father Christmas
Local runner gets his Molesworth
Part of the solution, rather than the problem
What the hell are we doing in Afghanistan?
Armistice Day – Let’s get it right about the First World War
Hypothetical? Police Need to Expand Their Vision!
Witless victims of a corporate sales cycle
The Mountain and Tasmanian Times
Last Words: The Tamar Valley and 2009
The Green New Deal: Public or Private?
John West, a printing press on a cart ... and TT
The compassion of Peter Cundall
The troubling approach to foxes
Global warming: Faster, stronger, sooner
Armistice Day – the most egregious exclusion
Time to end Cabinet amateur night
Armistice Day: The egregious exclusion of Tasmania’s military nurses
Collapse presents a rare opportunity
EXCLUSIVE: Flanagan plagiarises Akerman
CFMEU - Acting for Members or for Forest Companies?
Gunns: World leaders, sustainable, environment friendly
Wasted Opportunity for Stupid Animals
Coming: The Revelations of Deeper Throat
Michael Stokes: Re pulpmill pipeline
My hero, the Reverend Gilbert White
For Folks' Sake - Happy 5000th TT
Equal treatment for everyones' sake
A one-sided protrayal of Tasmania
The role of parks in Tasmania's economy
The Digital Economy Minister's website didn't work properly ...
The Anti-Discrimination Act: why it’s important and how it’s threatened
Burma opposition offered guns by Islamists
Heart of hearts betrayal of the Tamar Valley
There must be an unfettered Commission of Inquiry
Flanagan's call for a Royal Commission
Gunns: Hoist by their own petards
“Trust in Democracy” and Section 11 of the Pulp Mill Assessment Act
Mill: What is credibility worth?
A taxpayer view of the economy
Tasmanians' $30m gift to the pulp mill
Contagious cancer: The evolution of a killer
Washing hands of responsibility
Chronicle (35): A Touch of Class
Ethics and Tasmanian politics: the real challenge
Chronicle (34): The Woking Cowboy
Tasmanian Water: Where To From Here?
Warming: Questions and answers
Pipedream: When will the public be told?
Pipelines and Bartlett’s Future
The Chronicle (33): The Wheels of Ire
A night for looking back ... and forward
Breach of law may halt roo cull
The Chronicle (32): the stings!
Feral cats: Where have all the quail gone?
Saul Eslake's assessment of the State Budget
John Howard, Companion of the Order of Australial! It’s enough to make me vomit!
Turning a leaden Tasmania back into gold
A man with a gun in the middle of the night
The Chronicle (31): The Unruly Journalist
Karen National Union chairman Saw Ba Thin Sein dies
The Chronicle (30): The Tartan Terror
Burma: military force the only way
Who should control our vital resources?
The Chronicle (29): The Inquest
Law and Justice Part Company – Tasmanian Pulp Mill Assessment Act 2007
How do you write a constitution?
Who can prove how the dead voted?
The Chronicle (28): The naughty sub and other drunks
The profound contempt of the Lennon government
The Royal Hobart Hospital grand plan
The Chronicle (27): The football match
A chronicle of perfidy, bias and lack of representation
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
Shredding the Anti-Discrimination Act?
Governance and memory: An Anzac story
So What? - Ethics and Governance in Tasmania
Our system is organised to betray taxpayers
Richard Flanagan accepts the Premier's invitation
The Chronicle (26): The Birdbath
Howard's legacy ... Rudd's problem
What do the latest DNA-positive fox scats tell us?
The Chronicle (25): John Braine
Tasmanian neo-liberalism - A new vision for terra nullius
Tasmania and the risks to Rudd
Hope of cure for dying Tasmanian devils
The Chronicle (24): Herbie Taylor
The Chronicle (23). The Renault 4
Sensitive devils a pollutant risk
Meltdown: global warming by the numbers
Guy Nicholson: Honourable and unbending
The Chronicle (22): Enter Miss Norway
Identifying and dealing with organisational problems
Gallows Hill, Murderers Plains, Killman Point
Systems logic and the pulp mill battle
It's a sobering thought - drink is inspirational
A week in the life of Australia
Commentary on Mid-Year Review of 2007-08 Tasmanian Budget
A terrible, beautiful history of hope
Screen Tas: Where's the media?
Complex Systems of Cutting Budgets
Llewellyn doesn't want to know...
A survivor's guide to current affairs
The Cold War at the bottom of the Planet
Dangerous words, Prime Minister
The solution to East Coast water problems
Rudd, national security and you
Never in the affairs of humanity . . .
Mill: detailed complaint to ACCC
Critical lessons from the mill debacle
Tasmania's economy: How much change is enough?
Howard: timidity, fear and shame
China 4: China's work-choice law
Kevin Rudd's $110 million gift to Gunns pulp mill
Amanda Lohrey's senior fellowship
The Great Wall tunnel and highway
Flanagan: Uniting against the mill
Why don't they tell us it's costing us $250 million a year to destroy our carbon sinks?
Monsieur Downer and Chris Johnson
China 3: The Long March to global economic domination
Climate change to threaten a third of wildlife
China 2: No pulp fiction in this bilateral relationship
China 1: New wall to free speech
Saving ourselves from catastrophe
Global warming versus economy: Economy wins
The hardest work you will ever love ...
EI: Time to vaccinate Tasmanian horses
The Chronicle (10): Diary of a hack (continued)
Hey, hey, we’ve got a PM again
Analysis of regulatory and enforcement powers available under the Pulp Mill Assessment Act 2007
Dear Editor, Wentworth Courier
Elusive fox the new Tasmanian devil
Mill: the 55,000 Flanagan drop
Where the PM's mate got his inspiration
The power of Parliament to amend the permit
Powers and Duties of Members of Parliament under the Pulp Mill Assessment Act
More on those Elwick pokies ...
A moving encomium for an old viper
Can't see the Gunns for the trees
Puppet Master has lost his touch
Why we need a Commission for Ethics
The failure of the politics of results
After the Iraq pullout, what next?
Legal eagles hover above the law
My memories of Natone Area School
Flanagan's 'brilliant' Terrorist
MEAA: $10,000 to stop my election
The Right of a Parliamentary Scrutiny Committee to Seek Independent Legal Advice
The devils' disease: an update
Carmen going, Hanson coming ...
Comments on Pulp Mill Assessment Bill 2007
Employment implications of Forestry timber sales
Opinion on whether the Acting Premier, Mr Steve Kons, is guilty of contempt of parliament.
The potential tragedy for John Howard
Oh what a tangled web we weave
The world's frogs are croaking
Tales of magnanimity and irony
Productivity, prosperity and Tasmanian living standards
Tasmanian mid-year-budget review
Lost and found in the frigid ocean
The dead fox that crossed the road
Double jeopardy, boil and bubble
What do you believe, Mr Llewellyn?
Voters' Block against the Mill
Savvy analyst, ruthless spin doctor
Battery Point: Castles built on sand
Where have all the shacks gone?
Whatever happened to the productivity revolution
Battery Point: jetties on the foreshore
Why I wrote The Unknown Terrorist
Recession? What Saul Eslake says
Public myths ... convenient untruths
Port Arthur and the loss of innocence
Defending Tasmania's ancient forest (2)
Foxes, quolls, devils and 1080 (2)
Foxes: loads of politics, pinch of science!
Old Beach: was it a Bengal Tiger?
Battery Point: public's right of access
Battery Point: are the titles valid?
Democracy and the dripping tap
To: Ivan Dean: MLC and Mayor of Launceston
Devil disease, Denmark and that ludicrous decision
Defending Australia's natural heritage
Battery Point: swords scalp outsiders
The insidious invasion of Bioterror
PM: Alone on a melting ice flow
Every pack of dogs needs a bone to chew
The tired comfy-zone of sporting heroes
Mill gets water, people get restrictions
Corporate organised crims, and others
Brethren: Woe to you, Hypocrites
Proposed inquiry into quarantine
Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose
Mr Mayor, 26 billion litres is a deluge of water
In (partial) defence of Bryan Green
Why Ralphs Bay must not be touched
Uranium: economic bonanza or faustian bargain?
Fox-kill driver is a hero, but who is he?
Crass conquers class in new suburbia
Paedophiles deserve the death penalty
Toughest, trickiest, smartest, most ruthless, most resilient little political operators
Unravelling political spin and established mythology
Amazing Scenes: Fun in Journalism
Bill 'n' Buffy: other ways to live (2)
The truth about the Devil Disease
Fox: don't believe all you read
Where's your commitment, Minister?
Order of the Crusty Curmudgeon
The other state of the Derwent
Minority Government: Who benefits?
Pete Hay: trashing the big lie
