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  Curious Hobart: What is the history of the old district known as Wapping?

  Lewd women, grisly murders, sailors drinking themselves to death and typhoid. Sounds like your typical 19th century port. Early Hobart’s Wapping district...

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  Sign a petition for a Return To Healthy Home

  Hi Everyone, For those who have not seen it, please view Return to Healthy Home – SAFE HAVEN short film. Short film...

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  Life Without Limits: The Delusions of Technological Fundamentalism

  In a routinely delusional world, what is the most dangerous delusion? Living in the United States, I’m tempted to focus on the...

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  Coroner & Legal

  ‘Tarkine Logging Blitz uncovered by conservationists’

  Two areas of ancient tall eucalyptus forest and rainforest have been destroyed in the past months by logging in Tasmania’s Tarkine. Conservationists...

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  Economy

  Public Education. How important is it?

  A national and state overview. First in a three-part series The debate over our poker machines in hotels and clubs in Tasmanian...

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  Crackdown on donations would destroy activist groups, GetUp says

  Donors who give less than $5 a week would have to fill in a statutory declaration under proposed new laws The activist...

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  TasWater takeover: It’s all spin …

  The buck stops here: Treasurer Peter Gutwein (who is pushing for a takeover of TasWater) and Premier Will Hodgman spruik the 2016...

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  Economy

  Where have the Birds of Prey Gone!?

  *Pic: Whistling Kite in flight … There are a number of Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease Virus (RHDV) strains released in Australia since 1995...

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  Coroner & Legal

  Falls Festival needs to take responsibility for sexual assault cases

  *Pic: Photos by Joanna Pinkiewicz. Festival goers spreading the message of saying NO to Sexual Assault … In response to last year’s...

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  A letter to the Prime Minister …

  *Pic: Flashback to 2015 floods … the area of the proposed relocation … To: The Honourable Malcolm Turnbull MP Prime Minister Parliament...