Tasmanian Times
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743PoliticsWhat the MLCs say ….
• Liz Smith Members of the Legislative Council, Tasmania’s house of review, should not be directed or influenced by political parties in...
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1.1KEconomy
The Lives of Brian
For six years I sat within meters of the late Senator Brian Harradine. Along with a few Greens and One Nation, the...
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1.1KEconomy
The Mass Mobilization of Populations
Image from Snoopman … which also has Lorde’s censored speech on corporatized totalitarianism : https://snoopman.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/lordegrammyspeech.pdf Shaping corporate totalitarianism out of democratic ideas...
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1.1KSatire
Barry O’Farrell To Guest Star At Dark Mofo
Former NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell is set to be a featured guest at this year’s Dark Mofo festival, inside sources have revealed....
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1.3KEconomy
Much learning does not teach understanding
Polumathie noon ou didaskei. Heraclitus (DK B40) Much learning does not teach understanding, else it would have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras; and...
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1.2KHistory
MH 370 debris … ? Just as John Hawkins predicted on TT … ?
Debris washed up on the coast of Western Australia, have raised hopes it may be from the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370:...
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1.1KPolitics
Can we divorce theology from politics?
Allegory to separation of church and state, 1905. How free from a religious or sacred dimension is our political system? The West...
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869Travel
Struth!
IN his continuing search for the more weird, whacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that while the...
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1.7KReligion
Nicholas of Cusa and the Instruction of Ignorance
On a slow boat journey from Constantinople to Venice in the early 15th century, scholar and papal diplomat Nicholas of Cusa set...
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Statements
Tony Abbott must protect UTAS and reject elitist plan for universities
The Australian Greens say plans to increase student fees while ripping $2.4 billion away from universities would hurt an already struggling sector...
