Tasmanian Times
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749PoliticsHuon Valley Guessing Games: A question of governance
The Huon Valley’s best-known secret men’s club — the controlling Futures Team on the local council — is likely to consolidate its...
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868Economy
‘Who’s on First? and What’s on Second?’
The original title was, ‘Who’s on First? and What’s on Second?’ I remember hearing the skit with my family as we sat...
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891Arts
Sports v Arts: The Irish experience
A follow to: The Fallacy of Sporting Attraction, Chris Berg, and, BOFA Irish subsidised arts sector supports 2,600 jobs – report Published...
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Economy
Parliament has a duty to protect children from junk food ads: Brown
The Australian Greens will introduce new legislation today to protect children from junk food advertising, after the Gillard Government and the Opposition...
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839International
Cry for Freedom from the Heart of West Papua
Thousands of West Papuans march through Jayapura, defying the Indonesian police and military, risking death to call for the freedom, as the...
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1.0KEconomy
Crying ‘Fox’ too often…
Tell a story often enough and people begin to believe it. In June 2002 David Llewellyn resurrected a conspiracy theory covered by...
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941Media
Giveaways hide true picture of newspaper circulation carnage
Last weeks’ numbers showing a reduction in the rate of decline of newspaper circulation (HERE) was entirely as a result of publishers...
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930Environment
Looking forward to a smoking ban on the route of the Tour De France?
The unremarked passage of the Tasmanian Public Health Amendment Bill 2011. This week was a noteworthy one for reform of tobacco regulation...
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861Economy
Thousands Urge EPA to Discount Flawed Science on Syngenta’s Atrazine
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–November 14 – As EPA reconsiders the science on atrazine, new findings highlight the link between low-level exposure to the nation’s most...
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839History
Those South Pacific Cane Cutters
Last week SBS repeated a Doco on the White Australia policy. In it the Kanakas got a mention and that prompted me...
