Tasmanian Times
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1.3KEconomyHigh cost of power
The crux of the problem is that Aurora / Hydro / Transend do not have cost minimisation as an objective. A fortune...
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812Economy
Disputed Pulp Mill to go Federal Again?
Community-based grassroots pulp mill campaigners Tasmanians Against the Pulp Mill (TAP) report that they have been shut out of negotiations between major...
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891Economy
Equity and ecological sustainability rather than Corporation control
In this paper I put the case that problems about forest destruction, plantations and particularly monoculture plantations, and the search for sustainable...
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Economy
A new method of Labor rule
Here’s The Big Picture #86 which presents my article on forestry’s assault on Tasmanian communities, businesses and resources, and delivers the week’s...
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1.1KArticle
Travels without a Donkey: Ecuador (1)
AS THE old adage goes, ´it´s been a long time between donkeys.´ As was bound to occur eventually we had our first...
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794National
War on War
Under our political system all three arms of Government exist separately yet none may have unbridled power unto itself or untrammelled power...
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776Economy
The Great Disruption
Sometimes the satirical newspaper The Onion is so right on, I can’t resist quoting from it. Consider this faux article from June...
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1.8KHistory
You think the unions are bad …
All those complaining about the union influence in the Labor Party, and the Asylum seeker policies of the Liberal Party should consider...
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950Media
How Crikey kept on trucking
Crikey founder Stephen Mayne on how the website survived the lean early years Ten weeks after Crikey.com was launched on 14 February...
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764Health
Premier defends A-G’s voluntary euthanasia strategy
Tasmania’s Premier has defended his Attorney-General’s decision to use public money to develop voluntary euthanasia legislation. Lara Giddings is planning to use...
