Tasmanian Times
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Leven River Rail Bridge Successfully Tied In to TasRail Network
After 60 hours of continuous work, a freight train rolling across the Leven Bridge at 9.10pm last night signalled the new Leven...
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Veterans super boost good news
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, welcomed the Government’s announcement that the superannuation indexation rules for the Defence Force Retirement Benefits...
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Miners are facing up to the future. Now Canberra must step up
Tuesday 30thJuly, 2013. Sydney, Australia. Despite miners displaying a negative outlook for their prospects in 2013- 14, every cloud has a silver...
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Light Rail: What has happened might the people ask? Zilch!
To highlight the fact that a Light Rail Service would provide for Bridgewater and beyond to Brighton a much faster public transport...
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1.5KEconomyIt will be the fault of MLCs, not us, say activists. Fear of ‘Terrorism’
Huon Valley Environment Centre and Still Wild Still Threatened respond to the opinion of the Tasmanian Greens Leader that a moratorium on...
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Death sentence for ‘virtually indigenous’ wallabies
Stop Tasmanian Animal Cruelty has received distressing reports of a government plan to slaughter between 200 and 300 Agile Wallabies very soon...
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810Coroner & Legal
‘Greens lost in wilderness on toxics’
‘It is not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends that in the end hurts us the most’...
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1.4KCoroner & Legal
‘Powerful doco shows justice gone feral’
I’ve just pre-viewed a chilling TV doco, Shadow of Doubt, about justice in Australia: a woman is serving 23 years in jail...
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1.4KCoroner & Legal
Animal cruelty, Tasmania
Last Wednesday, at the Magistrates’ Court in Launceston, sentencing proposals were put to Magistrate Reg Marron by Prosecutor Harry Virs in the...
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Greens warn Labor not to lurch to the right on budget cuts
The Australian Greens are warning the federal government against lurching further to the right by taking the razor to programs that care...
