Economy

The Invisible City and the CEO Sleepout

More than 105,000 Australians belong to The Invisible City, says Tess Lawrence, and some of them may be people you know. Many...

Does the 2010 election herald a return to Van Diemen’s Land?

Paul Lennon by Jon Kudelka The 2010 state election presented Tasmanians with a hung parliament. The doomsayers insisting that this was end...

Get a Dictator …Watch what Frank and Lindsay had to say

Image: Mercury here: In Hobart to talk to business leaders yesterday, the self-made billionaire founder of Linfox urged the community to get...

Green eyeing councils’ $330m cash reserves? Man-up, Green told

Hobart City Council has received an intriguing letter from Deputy Premier Bryan Green which intimates that the cash-strapped State Government has its...

News to shrink divisions in cost-cutting sweep

Rupert Murdoch’s News Ltd will slash its operations along Australia’s east coast in a move that is expected to lead to major...

$240,000 Gunns roadworks bill goes unpaid. As does Walker Corp bill. Man-up, Green told

GUNNS ROAD WORKS BILL GOES UNPAID Kim Booth MP Greens Energy Spokesperson Tuesday 19 June 2012 The Tasmanian Greens today said the...

TASMANIA’S BEST ARCHITECTURE!

People Before Pokies!

“People before Pokies!” was formed today in Hobart, as a response to a public meeting held at Hobart Town Hall two weeks...

‘Citizen journalists’ can’t replace papers. Fairfax slashes jobs, goes tabloid paywall. Gina looms

Would Nixon get away with it in the Google age? A web of ‘citizen journalists’ cannot replace newspapers. FORTY years ago, five...