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851PoliticsSky News ‘Leaders Debate’ Shunned by Tasmanian TV
SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA has enticed three of Tasmania’s leading journalists and media personalities — Sue Neales from The Mercury, Tim Cox from...
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986Economy
ALP’s attack ad claims on Pedder don’t stack up
The Labor Party faces the embarrassing prospect of having to pull it’s anti-Greens attack ad as a result of overstating by over...
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975Economy
The big power subsidies the free-marketeers won’t talk about
Last week, the Melbourne-based think tanker, Julie Novak, made a splash with 866-word column on The Mercury’s opinion page railing against the...
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775Article
Liberals pledge to blow some cash on forestry PR
Last Friday the Liberals Shadow Treasurer, Peter Gutwein, knocked out a media release thundering about how the Liberals could cut $128.7 million...
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2.0KEconomy
Who gets to meet Premier David Bartlett?
Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett is a busy man. In his first three months after being elected as Premier in late May 2008,...
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David Bartlett’s Appointments Diary: Meeting with the Loggers
At his inaugural press conference as Premier in May 2008, David Bartlett pledged that he would “take a deeply considered approach based...
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David Bartlett’s Appointments Diary: A Close Encounter with the Freedom of Information Act
Who gets to meet David Bartlett? It seemed like a simple question, so in November 2009 I submitted a request to the...
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How David Bartlett’s spin-doctor engineered an election ‘debate’
Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett’s Senior Political Adviser, Matt Rogers, succeeded in persuading...
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“Anti-forestry” and “anti-logging”: Dressing Industry Propaganda Up As Fact
Last week, the Mercury’s chief political reporter, Sue Neales, described the Greens Franklin candidate, Adam Burling, as an “anti-forest campaigner” [sic]. Clearly...
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797Politics
What role for anonymous sources in election reporting?
LABOR IS in deep trouble in Franklin, where it is unlikely to hold on to its current three seats. With both the...
