Tasmanian Times
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Politics
Water and sewerage costs another $90,000
Today we have proof that the Government has failed with its water and sewerage reforms, given it is now resorting to a...
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Statements
Launch of 2010 RAA conference on Mon, Oct 12th, noon
Monday October 12that 12:00 noon. Design Centre, Tamar Street, Launceston Who: Tasmania’s Minister for the Arts, Michelle O’Byrne, together with Steve Grieve,...
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889CartoonsFire down under
Projections for Australia present a conundrum. It looks likely to escape extreme temperatures rises of 10 °C or more seen elsewhere, but...
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Cartoons
Nothing unexpected here
http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2009/10/06/101575_tasmania-news.html Ha! … nothing unexpected from the government here… but what an irony that the Australian Education Union’s president Leanne Wright has...
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872Cartoons
They have learned to hide behind weasel phrases
A few years ago, I travelled through Tasmania with a group of British tourists who had been touring around Australia. They commented...
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Democracy Tasmania
Jobs jobs jobs! How many new pulp mill jobs?
There are several competing stories around the pulp mill proposal that we are asked to believe. We can choose to believe Gunns’...
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967Forestry
One Sunday at Beaconsfield
The travelling cabinet, the community forums, and the decentralized parliamentary sittings are all recent reincarnations of a political practice stretching as far...
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816Cartoons
The Dilemma
Readers, have a look at the policewoman’s face. She is in a dilemma, we too are similarly caught. I quote Don Davey:...
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Cartoons
Get the facts right
You know I just don’t get it, there seems to be two groups here claiming the high moral ground and that is...
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Politics
Dairy rally
Tasmanian dairy farmers are not alone in their fight for a fair milk price. The turnout at today’s rally in Devonport was...
