Tasmanian Times
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4120EconomyGillard backs experts’ asylum seeker report
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has backed an independent report on asylum seekers, saying the government would move urgently to restart offshore processing...
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614EconomyDealing with FT: John Powell’s tortuous saga (includes all articles)
Forestry chief Bob Gordon, left, and Minister Bryan Green From: powelljl … To: lara.giddings@dpac.tas.gov.au; bryan.green@parliament.tas.gov.au; brian.wightman@dpac.tas.gov.au; karen.vadasz@dpac.tas.gov.au; michael.stedman@dpac.tas.gov.au; richard.dowling@dpac.tas.gov.au Subject: UNBLOODYBELIEVABLE!!!! Date:...
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431EnvironmentLooking through the rose-coloured glass
The All Saints Church is excited to announce a Federal Government Grant through the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities...
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493HistoryThe Murdochratic State
Anyone beguiled by appeals by the Murdoch press in Australia for the defence of “freedom” against the Leviathan of the state needs...
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6014EconomyStupidity is on the rise in our age of enlightenment
SINCE Gough Whitlam’s time, Australia has undergone a serious decline in the quality of debate on public policy – and the same...
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473MediaFree speech debate is coloured by hypocrisy
The martyrdom of Saint Andrew of Bolt is stirring a stifled nation. ”Freedom of speech” rings from the battlements as this cherished...
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603EconomySupporting the Human Rights of Sex Workers: Sex Party Policy – And Damn Proud of It!
Aristotle wrote, “To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” Conversely, when one has much to say one must be prepared...
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392MediaYou Will Be Assimilated
Recently, Glenn Greenwald interviewed Chris Hayes about Hayes’s new book, Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy. I have the audiobook cued...
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524OpinionNo-show after school
Imagine, just for a moment, your child fails to show up after school. You wait and watch and hope against hope but...
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425OpinionAustralian Public Servants Subjected to Soviet-Style Abuse
To be an Australian Public Servant today means to have some of your basic human rights that other Australians enjoy stripped away...
