Tasmanian Times
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895PoliticsAbetz Claims Clear Lead
Liberal Senator Eric Abetz has leapt to the forefront in the early days of the election campaign with the most combustible flyer...
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865Economy
It’s on: Rudd gets the Col shoulder as Murdoch telegraphs his punches
A little over two years ago I wrote in this column that at a gathering in the US of his most senior...
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728Article
The University Cuts
As a student at the University of Tasmania, after reading the Griffith report*, I felt quite unsettled about our history and a...
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941Economy
The underlying problems are twofold
The underlying problems are twofold. 1. Tasmania is almost obsessed with central planning and “all eggs in the one basket” approaches. Simply...
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919Economy
There is only one conclusion …
Bill McKibben of 350.org has been leading a campaign for divestment from the coal industry, firstly in the United States, a recalcitrant...
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1.2KMedia
Screaming print media
Julia Gillard, as PM, was up against Tony Abbott, Kevin Rudd, News Limited, the mining industry and the coal lobby. The result...
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853National
How will you determine who to vote for?
#8 David, it is apposite to note that Andrew Wilkie revealed in the Murdoch press this weekend how he had been unfairly...
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1.1KCoroner & Legal
The corrupt civil process
This is the 17th extract from Evan Whitton’s Our Corrupt Legal System, available free at netk.net.au/whittonhome.asp. Whitton is a legal historian, a...
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2.0KEnvironment
Morality lost in a cloud of smoke
It is perhaps unsurprising that Kevin Rudd is “disgusted” by smoking. The Prime Minister’s revulsions over artworks, people-smuggling and now nicotine addiction...
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913Economy
Together We Can
Together we can, says Venerable Economic Development Minister David O’Byrne, on his website: http://www.davidobyrne.net/497 Well you can only agree … but who’s...
