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2008

May

• The Bell Bay giveaway

• Failure, heaped on failure

• The profound contempt of the Lennon government

• Why?

• Who’s afraid of the Inflation Genie?

• It’s democracy, stupid!

• End the forest wars

• Targetted!

• Ostriches in the silt

• Yet another mates’ deal … the worst?

• Do not forgive …

• Climate calls for massive shift in forestry operations

• The Royal Hobart Hospital grand plan

• Peter Garrett … destroyer

• Mill: the $108 million loss for the Tamar Valley

• Compulsory smoking

• Marking duel

• The sheep, dangling from a tree

• The Tamar’s big flush

• Democracy rally: What Jeremy said

• Democracy rally: What Peg said

• Odd to fear watchdogs, as bark’s worse than bite

• Citizens’ rights and the rule of law

• The Chronicle (27): The football match

• Forest management options

• Possession

• Our MPs commitment to us

• RAIN

• The secret role of government

• Roosting of the chickens

• The persecution of Nigel Burch

• The ad The Examiner wouldn’t publish; the Mercury did

• Harriss and Finch (Part 2)

• A chronicle of perfidy, bias and lack of representation

• Paranoid delusions

• The commercial-in-confidence pipeline

• Pay parity for public servants

• The Busted Sav

• Green fronts … or The Busted Sav’s Lament

• Why Tasmania needs a Commission for Ethics

• Four resolutions for Democracy

• Tasmania: A failed democracy?

• Hobart Democracy rally, YouTube

• HCC: pay pals

• Court gives green light for pulp mill legal challenge

April

• Why Public Truth matters

• Democracy PUBLIC MEETING, Tuesday, April 29, 7pm

• The Party

• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

• Smokin’

• TT: Crackpot clearinghouse or forum of ideas?

• Giants of the forests

• 2020 Retrospective

• Cronyism and bastardry

• The end of capitalism

• Cleaning up the wild SW Coast

• The New Tasmania

• Lockett and Abetz add to the haze

• Lessons from the US

• Poison bait not threatening key species

• Cam in the Florentine

• The dissipation of pain, and the transfer of its energy

• Invitation to a Think Tank

• Shredding the Anti-Discrimination Act?

• Burn-off air scare

• Lame duck?

• Democracy PUBLIC MEETING, Tuesday, April 29, 7pm

• Rid us of the Lennon cohort

• The burning of Tasmania

• A Diploma of Democracy

• Stand up for Tibet

• Forum: forests and climate

• By request: Rough Red revisited

• Governance and memory: An Anzac story

• The culture of coziness

• Crescent Bay backflip

• TUESDAY 22 Apr 12.30pm: Public Meeting, CITY HALL.

• Shreddergate

• So What? - Ethics and Governance in Tasmania

• Our system is organised to betray taxpayers

• Richard Flanagan accepts the Premier’s invitation

• To spray or not to spray?

• The Chronicle (26): The Birdbath

• Terrorist detonation

• Cracking the gloss

• Can the world survive China?

• Trevallyn Dam

• So it is now all OK to be gay?

• What Peter Garrett says

• Will the penny drop before it’s too late?

• The Premier replies

• Borne in the Florentine

• Fabulous Fabians

• Pokies: Dear Jim Wilkinson

• Shredders

• Lennon: the claims, a wrap

• Don’t you worry about that, Mr Parkinson

• Questions that must be answered (2)

• Questions that must be answered

• What Nigel Burch said

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