Tasmanian Times
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National Action: “Close the Camps and Bring Them Here” August 27th 2016
In the wake of the thousands of leaked files documenting the abuses to refugees and asylum seekers detained on Nauru this month,...
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844Economy‘I am just so happy to be alive’, he said …
Many people in Afghanistan risked their lives and their families to help foreign journalists. But foreign correspondent John Martinkus says after the...
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Recovery Plan fails the Freshwater Lobster
*Pic: Claire Gilmour’s March 2015 of a rescued freshwater crayfish baby … Earlier in August the Tasmanian Conservation Trust made a submission...
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Sex industry lobby group disrupts Survivor book launch
On Sunday 21 August, sex trade advocates tried to derail the launch, in Townsville, Queensland, of Prostitution Narritives, a recently published compilation...
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Susan Neill-Fraser faces her 8th year in Risdon prison
On Saturday August 20 Hobart grandmother Susan Neill-Fraser began her 8th year in Risdon prison. Still the haunting question remains to me...
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Dairy Symposium
Representatives from Tasmania’s peak farming body today attended the Dairy Symposium, convened in Melbourne by Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce. TFGA Dairy Council...
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Liberals Release Draft Amendments to Weaken Anti-Discrimination Act
The Liberal Government has released divisive, potentially dangerous and completely unnecessary proposed changes to the Anti-Discrimination Act 1998. The draft amendments are...
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Tasmanians Paying for Liberals’ War On Councils
The Liberals’ relentless war on councils risks local service delivery and increases in rates for Tasmanians. Local Government Minister, Peter Gutwein’s amalgamation...
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Government bill to allow hate speech slated
TASMANIA RISKS RECLAIMING ‘BIGOT’S ISLAND’ TAG Tasmanian gay rights advocates have slated the State Government for its proposal to water down the...
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Dairy Crisis and Barnaby
Rob Messenger for Independent Senator for Tasmania Jacqui Lambie
