Tasmanian Times
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Economy
Property rights
IF the right to own property is the “fundamental principle on which pluralist democracies are based” (Felmingham, Opinion, “Sunday Tasmanian”, 19/3/06), then...
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Politics
A bag of wonders
WHAT a bag of post-election political wonders turned up in The Mercury on April Fool’s Day! Tony Cutcliffe of the Melbourne based...
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Politics
Lifelong love job
IT”S good to be standing here, at the final turn of the electoral wheel for Denison after a campaign that was both...
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Environment
Pesticides and fruit and veg
ARTICLES on this matter have recently appeared in The Guardian newspaper: Is Organic worth it?: www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/O..1743666.00.html And Choice magazine: Pesticides in our...
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National
Iraq: the great folly
DURING the first six decades of her life, my mother — who died some years ago, in her early nineties — led...
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Society
April fool!
From … No Tern Unstoned — Musings at Breakfast, by Tim Bowden, published by ABC Books, 2004: One of the problems faced...
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Politics
The forced marriage
Extract: Michael Field, who spent three years as Premier during the Labor-Green Accord from 1989-92, says that alliance was a “forced marriage”...
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Environment
Fox believer
MY wife and I have been members of the Wildcare group, Friends of Lillico Penguins, for three years. On Monday evenings during...
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Environment
Fox sceptic
SOME biologists are convinced that foxes have established in Tasmania. In 1998 a fox travelled on a freight ferry across Bass Strait...
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Environment
Beatles, Brahms and Blackbirds
ALTHOUGH I write the “One the Wing” bird column in The Mercury, this is not my day job. I’m actually a sub-editor...
