Tasmanian Times
Economy
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802Huon Valley Guessing Games: Light is in the air
ALMOST since the day I came to live in the Huon, just before GFC (global financial crisis) shockwaves rolled out from their...
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STATE: An Italian job?
Observations on the latest grand architectural vision for Hobart’s future, the Macquarie Point Masterplan concept ( HERE ), dubbed “Old ground, New...
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Hospitals hit workload crisis
Efficiency gains in Tasmania’s public hospitals will be dwarfed by an ever-increasing flood of new patients unless the state government employs more...
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Tasmanian Conservation Trust facing extinction
The Tasmanian Conservation Trust is facing extinction unless $80,000 is raised to save it. The TCT, founded in 1968, was a key...
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Human rights and all that’s wrong with the Magna Carta
After a tireless round of celebrations for the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta we should now ask, in the spirit of...
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Tasmania … 350 snouts in one small electoral trough …
Charles Wooley, 60 Minutes I know I call it ‘Little Cuba’, but on the basis of numbers alone, our small island might...
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Tas Uni academic less than “abundantly clear” about Generation IV nuclear reactors
Academic Barry Brook began working at the University of Tasmania last year. He is a strident nuclear power supporter and is particularly...
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‘Spin’ – It’s no substitute for a positive response!
“Spin” has long since become an accepted currency of politics and, where once it might have fooled some of the people some...
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A British Genocide in Tasmania
Cover image shows a detail from John Glover’s Mount Wellington and Hobart Town from Kangaroo Point, 1834, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra...
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Come on Sue … spill the beans …
John Hawkins in Comments here, Underbelly: Paul Harriss; A Step Too Far?, Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 When I re-read this article –...
