Tasmanian Times
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Article
The brutal stepfather
FOR ALLl the fun and freedom of my time at Hawley and Port Sorell, it was also a period which saw the...
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Article
The stench of ’89
IS TASMANIAN history repeating itself? 1989 saw a massive fight over a pulp mill. 1989 saw the end of an era —...
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Society
The Aquatic Centre
MY 11year old has a pupil free day, (what a misnomer, isn’t it the teacher who gets the pupil free day?) and...
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Article
The Thinking Reed
Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. Pascal, Pensees (1670) section 6, number...
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Society
Queer as a ghost
WHEN ANZ chief economist Saul Eslake presented The Future of Tasmania, a speech to a business lunch in Hobart last year, he...
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Article
Your Say
Pulp and the forests Dear Examiner Editor, This will be my last attempted contribution to The Examiner as I can find consistent...
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Article
SPOT 3 moves to Hobart
NOW listen carefully … this is the word from Hobart Town’s most unreliable, incoherent drunk. Spirit of Tasmania 3 is heading to...
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Society
The Homophobic Zone
A NEW REPORT on Australian homophobia contains a few surprises. Tasmania has the best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) human rights...
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Article
Read!
UK motion condemns Gunns’ law suit A motion has been tabled in the British Parliament criticising Tasmanian company Gunns Limited for taking...
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Poetry & Short Stories
The Blue Giraffe
A COMMENTATOR in a recent issue of the Sunday Tasmanian was right to describe the launch of Blue Giraffe I as an...
