Tasmanian Times
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Celebrity bonking
THE WINNER OF my private competition for the best opening paragraph in the Saturday papers for 13 May, 2006 was the following...
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On the ground in Dili (2)
IT’S REALLY HARD to say what’s happening at the moment. In the past hour we’ve had nearby shooting (probably involving Australian troops)...
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On the ground in Dili
IT’S 11PM THURSDAY, and it’s been quite a day. Fortunately I came into the UN compound this morning so as to email...
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Not just the mine
A WEST TARMAR councillor has cast doubt on whether the Beaconsfield mine is entirely responsible for seismic activity in the town. Joy...
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Baby Boomers sitting pretty
While the Baby Boomers lap up the good times, young Tasmanians are increasingly having to ‘go it alone’ in life as seen...
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The Howard-Lennon deal
ON the first anniversary of the Howard/Lennon “Community Forest Agreement” (CFA), newspaper headlines revealed that Gunns Ltd has slashed logging contract business...
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Is this true?
TROLLING the usual haunts in a long carouse late last week Hag took Green Fairy Absinthe with a most unhappy parent. And...
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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...
