Tasmanian Times
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Environment
Why the devils are dying?
The primary cause of the malignant cancer, colloquially called Devil Facial Tumour Disease, still remains a mystery. Readers would be aware of...
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History
Eye for a bargain
My good friend Bacchus No-Smoke was enjoying a Scotch at the Athenaeum Club in Hobart where he heard that the new owner...
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Politics
In to bat for the HCC
The Hobart City Council has copped a fair amount of flak in recent times. The Mercury occasionally slips the boot in, pollies...
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Article
Why do we eat what we eat?
You know how KFC have that yummy-yucky chicken salt that everyone else tries to imitate? And the chips are warm and kind...
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Environment
Sullivans Cove … a dream run?
My good friend Bacchus No-Smoke was having an ale at T42 on the Hobart waterfront with buddies in the bureaucracy where he...
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Opinion
The Birth
“You are my midwife. You are second next to God to me.” She spoke through an interpreter in Arabic, her second language....
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Environment
Prove harm
All of us with open eyes and ears know only too well that chemicals are one hell of a problem. We know...
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Article
The 19th century industrial revolution
We have become locked into a nineteenth century industrial revolution mentality in Tasmania that diverts people from education and training and focuses...
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Anecdotes
Shame it kills you
I can’t look at a keyboard without tasting the tarry, sweet tobacco of a Players Navy Cut on my lips, or feeling...
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Environment
Tasmania’s shame: The Devil Disease
Even before we Europeans arrived in Tasmania, there was a Devil in Paradise. Today we have Devils in Paradise dying of cancer....
