Tasmanian Times
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979EconomyLake Pedder: Inundation and Restoration
The Lake Pedder Restoration Committee recently launched (at MONA) Lake Pedder: Inundation and Restoration, a 3D visualisation which enables viewers to appreciate...
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905Economy
Lucy’s Story: Media Manipulation
The Examiner of 23rd August, 2013 ( electronic edition: Watch our Bass candidates in action ) contained either a terrible gaffe by...
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1.1KCoroner & Legal
Asylum Seeker Myth Buster
*Picture: Christmas Island wreck, from ABC News online. Myth: Asylum seekers are illegal immigrants FACT: Asylum seekers are neither illegal nor are...
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831International
Dream over for boat people back in Sri Lanka
On a beach in the midday breeze fishermen stitch their nets and smoke, waiting for the wind and weather to turn favourable....
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842Economy
Abbott the boatie
In an additional policy release on Asylum Seekers on part of the policy offer was a $20M boat buyback scheme for Indonesia....
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1.3KCoroner & Legal
Larceny by trick: tax evasion
This is the 19th extract from Evan Whitton’s Our Corrupt Legal System, available free at netk.net.au/whittonhome.asp. The story so far. Justice Russell...
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1.2KOpinion
Are vulvas so obscene that we have to censor them?
Eighteen vulvas. All belong to women of Sydney University, and feature on the cover of Honi Soit, the university’s student newspaper. We...
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1.1KHealth
Internet muddies ethics on child pornography
A Tasmanian study finds that one in ten people believe there is nothing wrong with viewing or distributing child pornography. (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-18/survey-finds-acceptable-of-child-porn/4894764?section=tas) Researchers...
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631Economy
Where to now Greg?
While the major players in Election 2013 dominate the scene, there are serious question marks now hanging over the plethora of minor...
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793National
The only proven thing helmets protect us from are fines
Just over a year ago, my property was seized and shortly afterwards my driver’s licence suspended, because I’d refused to wear a...
