Tasmanian Times
Economy
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877$40 million to be wasted on another health review instead of surgery and nurses
Libs respond to Martyn Goddard’s TT article, That’s the way the money goes! The federal health bailout and its priorities State Health...
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Legislative Council holds Tasmania back. SA seizes the day
The Tasmanian Greens said that the Legislative Council had held Tasmania back and condemned itself to the wrong side of history by...
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RSPCA in internal row crisis
Image here Once again, the Tasmanian branch of the RSPCA is in turmoil, the Hobart Mercury reported today (28.09.2012 here), having stood...
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Tasmania’s divisive timber mill project reduced the mighty Gunns to a pulp
THIS week’s announcement that Gunns, the timber company that once bestrode the forests and valleys of Tasmania like a brooding behemoth, had...
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The Silence of the Lambs
The sheep in Pakistan. Image: Animals Australia here Early in August, the Wellards ship Ocean Drover left Fremantle on a multi-port destination...
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In your dreams
There’s a reason the people in the ad used to say ‘not happy, Jan’. I spend a lot of my working week...
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Let us hope the days of the cargo cult are over
Pictures: Matt Newton http://www.matthewnewton.com.au/Commercial/People/1/ The story of Gunns is a parable of corporate hubris. You can, as they did, corrupt the polity,...
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That’s the way the money goes! The federal health bailout and its priorities
Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek State Health Minister Michelle O’Byrne with Premier Lara Giddings. Michelle O’Byrne Pic: Rob Walls, http://robertwalls.wordpress.com/ The federal...
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Labor still wants mining profits to trump people and nature
Martin Ferguson and David Bradbury’s Productivity Commission inquiry into non-financial barriers to mining announced today is yet another effort by the Labor...
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Unsupportable Fox Baiting has no ‘Social Licence’
Community response to 1080 baiting on South Arm peninsula Despite the strong opposition from the South Arm community to the laying of...
