Tasmanian Times

Burnie: The Denial of Bail. Another protest

The article, Why bail was denied – the inside story, on the granting of bail to Karlien van Rooyen, after two days...

The Core Issue

Eschew the imagination of a Wettex and save the pulp mill

A little of the passion and understanding of the need to preserve the past that is demonstrated in the story above (Leo...

Tampa … and the loss of Labor’s soul

Can it really be that long ago. Ten years. Tampa time … that shameful moment in Australian history when then Prime Minister...

Abbott’s angry people … and How to create jobs

“Some might call the predicted thousands of trucks descending on Canberra ending up as hundreds (ABC, 21/8/11) a ‘flop’, but these Australians...

The Snouters Award

J.B. Hawkins Antiques through Tasmanian Times is proud to announce a new Annual Award: “The Snouters” for a Tasmanian Pollie or Public...

I agree with Erich Abetz

I think for once I agree with that Green and now Gunns hater Erich Abetz, the dear but simple Hodgman and the...

The crisis of the global economy. Was it a planned disintegration?

“The biggest propaganda story this decade is the fiction of the Japanese and now Chinese workers are thrifty folks who want to...

Missing on the money

It could be seen as a Sin of Omission. But whatever the regard, it was an odd oversight. Our morning newspaper reported...

Rupert Murdoch’s American Scandals

All the corruption exposed in England – hacking, political payoffs, dirty cops, hush-money settlements – is also happening here Rupert Murdoch would...