Tasmanian Times
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Economy
The unreasonable man
If I’ve learned anything in my 70 years of living, it’s that progress only comes from continually challenging the status quo. Not...
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Environment
Council blocks logging … is this a Tasmanian first?
Tonight (Monday, Jan 24) the Kingborough Council deliberated on a Development Application from Gunns Ltd. for another coupe at Middleton. Part of...
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The Saul Eslake Analysis: Tasmania’s economic recovery: Is it the Real McCoy? What Access Economics reckons: Threat seen to Tassie’s turnaround Another...
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Coroner & Legal
The Gunns 20 Litigation
Gunns – the giant Tasmanian logging company – is suing 20 environmental activists and organisations for $6.3 million. The company claims the...
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Politics
The terminally and habitually incompetent
About 230 years ago, James Boswell recorded Dr Johnson’s “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel” in his volume 2 of...
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Environment
Recherche Bay: the watershed clash
While the Gunns 20 lawsuit draws increasing levels of cheese out of the Greens, a watershed clash between tourism and forestry is...
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Article
Scenes of crime
I’m notorious for trying to drown my cousin in 1973. We were at Pipers River, she was five, I was three. As...
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Cartoons
Llewellyn’s X-ray vision
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History
Excusing the commissars’ mates … and all about Leonard!
In May 1977, the Geography Teachers Association of Victoria organised and sponsored a guided group-tour of parts – carefully selected – of...
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Coroner & Legal
The Gunns writ
Greg Barns is a great public controversialist. We need more like him. The pity is that Greg sees red when he hears...
