Tasmanian Times
Economy
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1.1KPermits – is Gunns out of Time? Triabunna 13 litigation ends. Forestry hates me. Animals arrested
We are moving towards the end game of the Great Tasmanian Pulp Mill saga with Gunns shares suspended, the unpaid creditors baying...
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My business is at risk because of the dead hand of bureaucracy
There have been many comments made recently in the media about the dead hand of governmental regulation and bureaucratic interference on the...
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Confusion Around Minister’s Budget Statement
Public Sector Unions today criticised Michelle O’Byrne’s announcement yesterday around further savings identified across the Department of Health and Human Services branding...
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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is King
Dr Warwick Raverty’s devastating revelations from inside the assessment process of Gunns Ltd’s Tamar Valley pulp mill plan I will add my...
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Support for council amalgamations
A survey has found strong support in southern Tasmania for council amalgamations, and a single council for the region. An expert three-person...
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The Oracle’s Market Update (Evening): Pounding the Rock Spiders
Hedge funds, widely regarded as the Rock Spiders of the funds management industry, took a well-deserved pounding yesterday. Rather than contribute capital...
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A sense of despair
Every Tasmanian who remembers the last rounds of major government cost cutting in the 1990s must be sharing the sense of despair...
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Addicted to pain and conflict
It has become perfectly clear to me over the past 12 months that a lot of Tasmanians are addicted to pain and...
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The Oracle’s Market Update (Evening): The MDMA-fuelled feline
It wasn’t so much a dead cat bounce as an MDMA-fuelled feline launched into orbit from a cannon. The numbers first. Unsurprisingly,...
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There is a context to London’s riots that can’t be ignored
Graphic pictures from the Daily Mail, Mail online: HERE Those condemning the events in north London and elsewhere would do well to...
