Tasmanian Times
Economy
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979Australia not prepared for natural disasters
The Australian Greens are calling on Labor and Tony Abbott to acknowledge that Australia is unprepared for a significant increase in natural...
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Farewell Dear Friends
A strange place is the World Wide Web. Many years ago, as a bored employee of a Hobart-based stockbroking firm, I started...
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Former Gunns boss John Gay pleads guilty to insider trading
The former head of collapsed Tasmanian timber giant Gunns, John Gay, has pleaded guilty to insider trading. Gay was due to stand...
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Getting moving with High-Speed Rail
The Greens have announced a plan to fast track the construction of high speed rail on the Eastern Sea board. Australian Greens...
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Legacy Thinking’s Tarkine mine triumph …
Butler’s latest Tarkine mine approval: another political ploy that ignores experts and long-term prosperity Australian Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said today that...
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Peace hopes rise for West Papua
PAPUA New Guinea has now launched an initiative aimed at defusing the standoff over West Papua, raising hopes of a breakthrough in...
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Red tape strangling solar industry jobs
The Tasmanian Greens today called for the Minister for Workplace Standards to cut red tape that is threatening to strangle the rooftop...
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Refugee Imperialism: Kevin Rudd and Dumping on the Pacific
The pro-refugee groups are milling about along Swanston Street, Melbourne, the arterial route of the city centre in what apparently qualifies as...
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How to Build an Electric Luxury Scooter Out of Hemp
How about this for an innovative new industry for Tasmania? An electric scooter built from industrial hemp. Just imagine how many new...
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The judge as Humpty Dumpty
This is the 17th extract from Evan Whitton’s Our Corrupt Legal System, available free at netk.net.au/whittonhome.asp. Whitton is a legal historian, a...
