Tasmanian Times
Arts
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George Bush Quotes – It’s Over Now!
“They misunderestimated me.” Bentonville, Arkansas, 6 November, 2000. “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking...
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O’Byrne: ludicrous
Jane Rankin-Reid To have only raised $13,000 at a Waldorf Astoria benefit sounds ludicrous to me. O’Byrne has clearly beaten the lowest...
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Airdy hams it up…
Jane Rankin-Reid Today’s Mercury has run a correction apparently at the insistence of Treasurer Michael Aird and or his minders. So, the...
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Swift Parrots
Sarah Day (Wielangta Forest, Tasmania) Somewhere on someone’s desk, there’ll be a map of these quiet hills, describing every dip and rise,...
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Sandline Dave
Ben Quin Which got me thinking – perhaps a Christmas season bad poetry lines competition could ease some of the strain. Sandline...
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The experience of poetry
Anne Kellas Launch speech by Anne Kellas for Blue Giraffe #8 Republic Bar and Café, 7 December 2008 TS Eliot said wisely,...
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Lieing in the sand
Buck and Joan Emberg Let’s see now…was that a “Line in the sand” our Prime Mover drew? Or was it “Lying in...
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Hey Michelle: Where’s Flanagan?
Hag THIS media release from Tourism Minister Michelle O’Byrne is bizarre … She has just announced “that Tasmania would take advantage of...
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The kind of despair
Jane Rankin-Reid Wes makes a point well worth considering. Is there any connection between the kind of despair young people experience in...
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Today: Protest against Spirit of the Sea
Isabella Murray The speakers will be Cassy O’Connor MP, Tasmanian Greens Member for Denison and Shadow Spokesperson for Tourism and the Arts,...
