Tasmanian Times
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835EconomyPray As You Go
He’s a big fellow. Uniformed for instant ID as an Aurora field officer, he moves up my steps onto the balcony and...
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1.5KCoroner & Legal
Former government heads back plan for honest government
Tasmanians for Transparency has received the endorsement of former state government officials Dr Jocelyn Scutt, Dr Patmalar Ambikapathy Thuraisingham and Mr Barry...
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873Economy
If the amendments get passed …
Just for any legally minded masochists amongst us, I have drafted a copy of the PMAA 2007 as it would appear if...
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959Economy
The Dictatorship of Majority Government
Senator Christine Milne on Minority vs Majority Government in Tasmania … The Deal is done in the Back Room and deilvered in...
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806Economy
McKim on royalties – too little too late
Nick McKim’s recent attack on Labor’s decision to [i]favourably consider[/i] deferring royalty payments to Shree Minerals is indicative of just how tongue...
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936Economy
A new Devil: Cost benefit analysis
Perhaps I am just becoming a peevish old man. I don’t think so because I view life as ‘pretty good’ and wake...
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672Economy
Our Shrinking State
Miss Denny’s solution to our declining and ageing population (Mercury December 29) is to attract a “preferred” younger demographic, particularly women of...
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829Economy
Organic farmer vs. GM farmer facing trial on February 10
World’s first case January 22, Melbourne – Organic farmer Steve Marsh will soon face his neighbour in the WA Supreme Court in...
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925Economy
The art of the reptile
Amazing Scenes: Adventures of a Reptile of the Press (The Fairfax Library, 1987) is a collection of Evan Whitton’s journalism. @EvanWhitton1. Willy-nilly,...
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4.1KHistory
Betty King … first white woman in Australia
In September 1963, the late Henry Shoobridge of Bushy Park, Tasmania, who was a well know local identity and hop grower, placed...
