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  Howard for Parent of the Year

  Rosinante Quixote John Howard for Parent of the Year John was worried. He knew the kids were slipping away from him. Week...

• Health

  The Aboriginal health crisis

  Dr Maureen Davey It’s true, Aboriginal health is much worse than that experienced by other Australians. Whether Aborigines live in urban areas...

• Article

  Get Up Australia

  Turnoff Thetelly A very interesting site, called Get Up, is gearing up to give Australians some hope of organising themselves in order...

• Environment

  Premier’s pulp fiction

  Henry Melville As the Sweco assessment is released … Labor parliamentarians must be feeling particularly deceived and let down by the actions...

• Article

  An atheist’s view

  By Max Bound This paper suggests the positives in Kevin Rudd’s “The Monthly” October “Faith in Politics essay and November Brutopia article...

• Article

  A Tasmanian catastrophe (3)

  Pete Godfrey In the UTAS cancer study of 1980-1999 for Tasmania our cancer rates had some standout rises. Eg Thyroid cancer rose...

• Article

  Tassie Taliban …

  Tassie Taliban One YOU MAY not have heard of Tasmanistan or the Tassie Taliban or even Bazza Al Fukawi, their fanatical, tree-hating...

• Environment

  To hell, all Gunns blazing

  typingisnotactivism … revelations in the past month reveal a state-level democracy that is surely gone to hell — with all Gunns blazing....

• Politics

  Howard’s Tampa II

  John Ward The next life at sea crisis involved the controversial boat where the Government claimed the passengers had tried to throw...

• Politics

  Economic predation in Tasmania

  Brenda Rosser Tasmania’s economy is now criminogenic: it fosters and rewards criminal behavior. As the economist James Galbraith noted, neither markets nor...