Tasmanian Times
Economy
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851The Horror, The Horror of Ice …
I met Sebastian* and Helen* in the waiting room of a doctor’s clinic in Drouin, outside Melbourne. The place was alive with...
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Neither Knights, nor the bastard gentry
I had a fantastic idea on the weekend … It came to me while I was enjoying an ice cold can of...
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NATION: ANZAC makes week a long climb in politics
A week is a long climb in politics but last week lasted a hundred years. Or so it seemed to most Australians...
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WORLD: The Nepal Quake. Chan, Sukumaran
*Pic from here • ABC: Nepal earthquake: Hospitals overflowing, rural towns cut off as death toll continues to climb • HOW TO...
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NATION: The failure of The System …
*Pic: ‘Brains Trust: Hockey, Abbott, Bishop, Truss … As an experienced complex systems consultant, I cannot help but notice that our governments...
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Wildlife To Be Hit Hard In Tas Budget
Native wildlife is set to be a loser in the upcoming state budget with new cost-cutting initiatives to be introduced by the...
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Not the corporate miner we want …
The bare hills of Queenstown … caused by mining … From Ta Ann to Vedanta and Copper Mines of Tasmania (or Vedanta)...
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Discovering the Spirit of Tasmania …
Tim Holmes … The Holy Grail has already been claimed by the Welsh … Eager punters line up to get their book...
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Once-proud Rowitta is now an abandoned ship …
In her prime at Flagstaff Hill in 1999 – image “Fred” via Flickr Museums Victoria, Rowitta on the Tamar, circa 1922 See...
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Will the Homeless again be struggling … ?
Reflecting upon the arrival of another Winter in Tasmania, this question troubled me: Will the Homeless be again struggling to find adequate...
