Tasmanian Times
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2.1KPoliticsCheeky: Launched!
I’M HERE to welcome you to this — the launch of Cheeky, Confessions of a Ferret Salesman, by former Mercury journalist and...
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Politics
Cheeky: Thanks, Bob
I guess it takes a whistleblower to understand just what another whistleblower has been through! And make no mistakes about it, that’s...
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Health
A right Royal coincidence
Hag has been told of an interesting coincidence. Goss has it that a former CEO of the Royal Hobart Hospital, one Pat...
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Politics
Cheeky: blows the whistle on perks
AFTER MORE THAN TWO YEARS studying Parliament’s perks, I concluded that former highly-principled citizens undergo a metamorphosis once incarcerated in the sandstone...
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Politics
Dodgy council procedures
WE have for a number of years hammered Councillors and Council staff about (the absence of) liveability planning in Tasmania. In this...
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Politics
Cheeky: Sugar Ray’s king hit
DESPITE RUNDLE’S STRONG ENDORSEMENT to remain leader, there were still plenty of tensions in the Liberal camp. Peter Hodgman still fumed over...
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National
The Dismissal … and Suharto
THE events in Canberra on November 11 1975 had implications for Australia’s foreign policy and international relations. This was felt quite strongly...
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Politics
Well said Harry
THE perception is that the Premier is interested in the Big End of Town, the Gunns, Federal Hotels, Betfair and PBL rather...
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National
No hiding from the ferrets
BOB Cheek had never set foot in Parliament House in Hobart until he was elected as a Liberal member for the House...
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Politics
Frustration in the council
THERE HAS been the beginning of some good discussion about the governance of the HCC and the committee structure on the Tasmanian...
