Tasmanian Times
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Politics
Tasmania’s regional sickness
Turnoff Thetelly Someone is playing politics with this issue. Politicians regularly stir regional jealousies to divert attention from political scandals, and the...
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Poetry & Short Stories
Three poems about food
Kitty MadesonU.N. Take Note Somewhere in P.N.G. 3000 warriors stand steady bows in hand arrows set at the ready for only two...
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Politics
Those renovations: Lennon not happy
Tasmanian Times At the start of this year’s state election campaign Tasmanian Times ran the story no Tasmanian media was willing to...
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Politics
Basslink and bungled power policy
Bacchus H Barren As shown above that lack of a legitimate cost-based argument for an increase in consumer electricity prices raises the...
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Environment
Ralphs Bay calendar
The organisation campaigning to save Ralphs Bay from a canal development — Save Ralphs Bay — has just released a 2007 calendar...
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Environment
Go home, says Gay
Sue Neales Mercury GUNNS chairman John Gay told a leading American environmentalist to “go back to your country” during the timber giant’s...
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Environment
Solar Sailors fall silent
Luci Tania SOME may recall that on 12 October it was announced that the Tasmanian State Government was engaged in talks with...
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1.2KEnvironmentWhere there’s smoke there’s industry
Cephissus Dry A politician bearing a graph is always a worrying development. When Paula Wreidt exclaimed the virtues of Launceston’s air quality...
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Poetry & Short Stories
We Send Soldiers
A poem Jocelynne A. ScuttWe sent soldiers to Iraq Freedom defenders so we’re told defending freedom always at the point of A...
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Environment
CSIRO shreds pulp-mill plan
Simon Bevilacqua Sunday Tasmanian GUNNS Ltd’s pulp-mill proposal is significantly flawed, says Australia’s leading science research organisation. The CSIRO says the Tamar...
