Tasmanian Times
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Statements
Let’s make Tasmania the happiest place on earth
During National Volunteer Week (11-17 May), Volunteering Tasmania is connecting the community through a ‘Smile, it’s National Volunteer Week’ campaign. “The theme...
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1.2KEconomyNZ: A programme to poison a nation
Since the mid 1950’s, when New Zealand started aerial poisoning to rid the land of invasive mammals, there has been a steady...
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1.0KEconomy
NATION: Where there’s smoke there’s Joe (and Tony)
*Pic: Where there’s smoke there’s Joe … Treasurer Joe Hockey and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann share a convivial cigar before B1 …...
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1.2KArts
Triabunna: Despite the autumn colour, spring (is) in the air …
*Pics: Reorder installations … Inside Spring Bay Mill, dirty jackets hang on hooks as if their owners had just finished a shift...
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881Coroner & Legal
Petition to Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture
Dear Friends, I just signed the campaign: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture It would mean the world to...
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978Arts
Deceptions and such pranks are fun though …
Image from here I’m a fairly trusting bloke but only after I’ve exhausted all the possibilities of chicanery, deception and perfidy, commonly...
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1.5KHealth
For Nepalese women this is not about choice
For any organisation or person stating that working in the sex trade or brothels is about choice … think again … women...
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1.1KEconomy
Knowledge is power …
• Knowledge is power Once the motto of one of my old State schools, and it shows the level of schooling at...
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932Economy
MEDIA: Ready for the reputation rumble …
*Pic: All about Alexander The Great, Wikipedia here The French political philosopher Montesquieu, in his work The Spirit of the Laws, wrote...
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851Media
MEDIA: Insided Out …
It’s now four years since the US journalism academic Jay Rosen decried at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival about the “cult of savvy”...
