Tasmanian Times
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CSIRO: does money rule?
IN an article in the July 2005 Australasian Scientist, Professor Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe described how Parliament established the CSIRO in 1949 as a...
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Eddie’s shout
JUST when you thought things couldn’t get any crazier in Beaconsfield, Eddie McGuire turned up last night to shout the bar. And,...
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As I saw it
THE news broke just after 4am: the drills had reached the two miners within centimetres of the edge of their cage, just...
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1.1KThe clearfell phase-out sham
British MP Norman Baker in a Styx, aggregated retention clearfell HEADLINES and commentators keep saying it. The state government is promoting it....
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Bonking for Britain
SO another politician has been exposed for bonking at the British taxpayers’ expense. John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister in Tony Blair’s increasingly...
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The rotten top
THE rotten top of a pile trickles down to us all. Being an American by birth, I am sometimes mistakenly aligned with...
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Coralling the Pack
MICHAEL Lester says he has had some difficult jobs before but trying to coordinate public relations for the Beaconsfield mine is shaping...
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The quiet helpers
EVERY morning at Beaconsfield a small band of locals is supporting each other through the arduous waiting and also making the media...
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Hobart City Council and drug dealing
TASMANIA’S drug problem must have reached epic proportions. Adding new layers meaning to the Hobart Tip motto, “Don’t Waste Hobart”, the sign...
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Beaconsfield: the dangers
A successful outcome to the rescue operations at Beaconsfield is still far from certain. The final metre of tunneling will be the...
