Tasmanian Times
Economy
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823Closing of the Guard … ?
I am not inclined toward conspiracy theories but a letter received in the post today, above (dated 24 August 2016, a month...
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Just bad manners or something more sinister?
Today (last week) a random hire car drove up our 1km long driveway, pulled up, and its driver proceeded to take photographs...
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World’s Wilderness Gone By 2100 …
*Pic: The Rainforest Wilderness expanse of Tasmania’s Tarkine. Pic:Ted Mead … Unthinkable? But a recent study compiled by Australian and United States...
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NATION: Turnbull’s backflip marks a year of stunning under-achievement …
*Pic: from Malcolm Turnbull’s Facebook page HERE Urban Wronski … a reincarnated Bob Ellis In a death-defying acrobatic routine in Canberra this...
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Teen Challenge Tasmania and Assemblies of God: why the denial?
*Pic: Image from HERE Like many I was shocked at the Four Corners program on Sept 12, 2016 about drug rehab centres....
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The Secret Life of Trees …
Review of … The Hidden Life of Trees By Peter Wohlleben, 2015 Translation from German by Jane Billinghurst, 2016 Publisher Black Inc....
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Digital economy is our fifth pillar …
“The internet is a telephone system that’s gotten uppity” Clifford Stoll. In that one phrase, US-based author and tech commentator Clifford Stoll,...
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How political donations distort democracy
*Pic: Federal Parliament, Canberra. Both pics from parliamentary websites … State Parliament’s House of Assembly … Recent revelations that a Labor frontbencher...
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The sparrows …
Like the quolls living under our house, the sparrows had to go. They were starting up before dawn, while we were still...
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How low can Huon’s council go?
First published September 14 Huon Valley Guessing Games The bad news from the Deep South is that the secretive Huon Valley Council...
