Tasmanian Times
Economy
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845Political donations: campaign for reform
RUNNING for Parliament is an expensive business. Gone are the days when all a hopeful-politician needed was a megaphone and an army...
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State whale sanctuary good for brand, revenues and whales
STATE WHALE SANCTUARY: GOOD FOR BRAND, REVENUES & WHALES Cassy O’Connor MP Greens Environment & Animal Welfare spokesperson Friday 6 July 2012...
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Dispossessed
Consider the sorrow contained in the paragraphs that follow – for this is the anguish of the dispossessed, ousted by modern development...
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The most viewed video on the SMH and Age websites …
My documentary “A WORM in the APPLE” is screening at GAIAM in the USA and Canada and on Fairfax TV, throughout Australia....
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NAB loans to ‘Fat Tony’ Mokbel and the missing files
Tony Mokbel bewigged: is this the worst disguise in history? Contributing editor-at-large for Independent Australia Tess Lawrence reports on the links between...
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Hospital budgets to be cut by new pricing scheme
Less than she would have hoped … Tasmanian Health Minister Michelle O’Byrne Tasmania’s public hospitals stand to lose up to $80.7 million...
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Police to merge districts, cut senior jobs
Cost-cutting …? A speed camera disguised as a builder’s trailer. Pic: Rob Walls, http://robertwalls.wordpress.com/ Costly … ! The now-mothballed MV Fortescue Tasmania’s...
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Council mergers shot down
Earlier: A Tasmanians for Reform rally at Parliament, here A NEW report on local government reform in the North has knocked council...
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Maybe commonsense will eventually prevail here too
In the week that the carbon tax came into force, the Australian Government has released a survey commissioned last year to assess...
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Forester accuses Institute of Foresters of skewing forests report
A member of the Institute of Foresters of Australia (IFA) has criticised the organisation for misrepresenting his work in its critique of...
