Tasmanian Times
Posts By Editor
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Travel
Queenstown is over-rated!
New Zealand is an interesting country, in some ways so similar to ours, and in other ways, so different. The name originates...
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Opinion
The Accident: a true story
Leah and Davey have been drinking in the pub all night. It’s raining. Leah is happy to sit on a couple of...
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Politics
The Authority of Janet
My good friend Bacchus No-Smoke tells me that Janet Holmes a Court flew into Hobart yesterday (Saturday 12th) and is staying at...
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History
Eye for a bargain
My good friend Bacchus No-Smoke was enjoying a Scotch at the Athenaeum Club in Hobart where he heard that the new owner...
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Politics
In to bat for the HCC
The Hobart City Council has copped a fair amount of flak in recent times. The Mercury occasionally slips the boot in, pollies...
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Environment
Sullivans Cove … a dream run?
My good friend Bacchus No-Smoke was having an ale at T42 on the Hobart waterfront with buddies in the bureaucracy where he...
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Opinion
The Birth
“You are my midwife. You are second next to God to me.” She spoke through an interpreter in Arabic, her second language....
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Environment
Prove harm
All of us with open eyes and ears know only too well that chemicals are one hell of a problem. We know...
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Article
The 19th century industrial revolution
We have become locked into a nineteenth century industrial revolution mentality in Tasmania that diverts people from education and training and focuses...
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Anecdotes
Shame it kills you
I can’t look at a keyboard without tasting the tarry, sweet tobacco of a Players Navy Cut on my lips, or feeling...
