Tasmanian Times

David Bartlett: Are you afraid of Nick McKim?

AS DAVID BARTLETT woke to a beautiful Tasmanian day and pondered his visage in the shaving mirror, did he ask himself: Why...

David Bartlett: Tell us the truth

THE DAVID BARTLETT Government must be desperately hoping journalists continue to ignore what appears to be a most scandalous transaction: the 800,000...

Tasmanian Times Traffic Report

TT TRAFFIC REPORT … no, not what’s happening with car mauls on Macquarie Street or Elphin Road but on good old Tasmanian...

Libs to push ahead with plan to increase the size of Parliament

THE Liberals will push ahead with plans to increase the size of Parliament if they win government. Opposition Leader Will Hodgman said...

Recollections and Prognostications of an Octogenarian

SEVENTY-ODD years ago in my early teens I made my first visit to Burnie. I had boarded the train at the then...

A looming disaster

In his 1974bookThe American Marxist, early life metal worker, thinker and writer Harry Braverman discussed the question of where the critical power...

TT’s Tasmanian of the Year on Australian Story

This program is about an unlikely alliance between a GP, a group of oyster farmers and a Sydney scientist. They banded together...

The Trial of Michelle O’Byrne: A Public Address

Peter Cundall, hero. Rupert Murdoch, villain

THE REACTION to my last piece HEREwas greatly heartening, despite the odd grumble. As a consequence, I have made an acquaintance with...

The great reckoning begins

Ken Henry and David Gruen of Treasury should spend less time sneering at Barnaby Joyce and more time contemplating the unfolding calamity...