Tasmanian Times
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Your Say
Dear Evan, I fell about laughing after I read your letter in The Mercury (Friday August 5). You do not seriously expect...
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Africa, Cry Africa
AFTER a year of familiarisation and training I was informed in December 1960 that I would be posted in April, 1961 as...
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Another Lennon lemon
THE list of Lennon-Bacon failures seems to just keep growing and the Government’s slick spin-doctoring machine can no longer paper over the...
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Your Say
Please read, and perhaps print out, Mr Michael Wright’s splendid Noise essay on ASDD at http://members.aol.com/mpwright9/noise5.html which I’ve brought to the attention...
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Your Say
I am blessed in a world of four billion souls that I can drive the car for a short time and park...
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Water, water … nowhere
Melbourne Water’s operations manager, John Woodland, says it would take seven or eight years of average rain to refill the Thomson dam,...
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Bustline Theory
ECONOMIST George Taylor once observed that when hemlines went up, the economy was likely to follow in hot pursuit. But what are...
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The brutal stepfather
FOR ALLl the fun and freedom of my time at Hawley and Port Sorell, it was also a period which saw the...
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The stench of ’89
IS TASMANIAN history repeating itself? 1989 saw a massive fight over a pulp mill. 1989 saw the end of an era —...
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The Thinking Reed
Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. Pascal, Pensees (1670) section 6, number...
