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865EconomyEverything in duplicate
Walking into any one of the many ex-TAFE buildings around Tasmania can be a confusing and perplexing experience. Everything is in duplicate....
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820Education
What’s behind the war on class size?
To all those out there who are clamoring for “market-based” approaches to education reform, please tell me this: What kind of a...
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639Politics
Island on the edge
IN Aleksei Popogrebsky’s film How I Ended This Summer, screening at Hobart’s State Cinema at the moment, the lone inhabitants of a...
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674Article
No shallow talent
This first novel by Favel Parrett is absolutely wonderful. It was launched in Tasmania in Thursday but still hasn’t been launched nationally....
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1.1KInternational
Making Trouble: Essays Against the New Australian Complacency & other new books
In Making Trouble Robert Manne takes aim at the new Australian complacency. Making Trouble will enlighten and challenge, as it traces the...
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697Article
Tassie novelist wins top award
A TASMANIAN author’s novel about the state’s brutal past has won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for young writers. Six years in the...
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835International
Online activist network targets Rupert
If you had been on the Strand in London on the day that the high court was considering how to proceed with...
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1.9KTribute
A story of Engagement
April 11, 1952 to April 23, 2011 ARTIST, musician, collector and teacher Greg Hind passed away on Saturday the 23rd April after...
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792Media
A healthy nudge? No, shock us to our souls
‘Life, friends, is boring.” So says Henry, the protagonist of John Berryman’s Dream Songs, and it’s a sentiment that many share. Life...
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828Environment
Green Environments Essential for Human Health
ScienceDaily (Apr. 19, 2011) — Research shows that a walk in the park is more than just a nice way to spend...
