Tasmanian Times
Economy
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919World heritage fabrication exposed at Senate Inquiry
Richard Colbeck picture of Styx/Tyenna area, from here Claims from the Abbott and Hodgman governments that the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area...
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Lead! Who is going to take responsibility for this?
Winnaleah has become the seventh Tasmanian town to have Lead found in Tas Water’s reticulated drinking water supply. Winnaleah now follows on...
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This government is governing for big business, not for the interest of most Australians
Shortly before I started in the Senate, a friend of mine, Peter Lloyd, gave me a book to read which he told...
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Our daily grind
Australians’ love affair with coffee is showing no signs of flagging. Seems we can’t get enough of the stuff. In cities and...
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Tony Fitzgerald QC slams Qld LNP, Newman and Bleijie’s ‘old, bad habits’
Tony Fitzgerald handing a copy of the Fitzgerald Report to then Premier Mike Ahern, 1989 (Source: State Library of Queensland) In a...
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Listen to the message of Orlando, Will …
Surely Will Hodgman, Premier-elect of Tasmania … this is a better way … Rather than thrusting back to the Ancient Wars of...
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The Great Leap Backward
Tony Abbott reveals the outgoing governor general, Quentin Bryce, and her successor, Peter Cosgrove, will be the first to receive the titles....
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Brandis amendments to RDA an effective attack on free speech for Aborigines
Aboriginal lawyer Michael Mansell has challenged the motives of Attorney-General George Brandis’s amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act. “Mr Brandis claims the...
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Over to you, Mr Bond … The Search for Truth …
David Hawkins (brother of John Hawkins) is a world-leading forensic economist who lives in Canada. These are his musings on the disappearance...
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Hobart Baroque … ‘Never in my wildest dreams …’
Jennifer Marten-Smith,Tasmanian-born pianist and performer at Hobart Baroque played a selection from Bach’s Goldberg variations. Left is Frances Underwood. Right, Governor Peter...
