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2.7KCoroner & LegalSue Hickey: ‘You are in the Liberal Party, not the Labor Party’
First published May 2 Will Hodgman’s look of shock in Parliament was stark proof that he had forgotten LBJ’s salty aphorism about...
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1.1KCoroner & Legal
Machiavelli was alive and well in the Hobart Tally Room last Saturday …
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) was an Italian Renaissance writer whose great contribution to history was to give politicians a bad name. He was...
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1.1KEconomy
This election …
*Image from HERE Tomorrow’s election is the first I can remember in a long time with a clear point of difference between...
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995Environment
The Robot Journo …
*Pic: Robin Zebrowski, Flickr Robots … Ideally a column needs a good opening line to grab the reader. How about this one...
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963Coroner & Legal
Mincing my words …
*Pic: Dave Ingram Flickr. Peter Dutton at protest The alleged plot to bring down an aircraft in Australian airspace failed because the...
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937Economy
‘The fact is the war in Afghanistan was lost long ago …’
Australia had 270 soldiers in Afghanistan and now we have increased our commitment to 300. The Americans are apparently not that impressed....
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1.4KEconomy
Welcome to Kohbart …
*Pic: Digital image of Fragrance Group’s proposed hotel at 28-30 Davey St, Hobart. *Pic: An anonymous architect’s portrayal of the scale of...
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1.1KCoroner & Legal
What a lot of bull …
Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Portnoy’s Complaint. Lolita. Catcher in the Rye Ever heard of them? Of course you have. You probably studied them...
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1.4KCoroner & Legal
Old farts …
*Pic: The Baby Boomer generation … Image from here First published March 20 What a rotten time to be young. The place...
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2.2KEconomy
Before I saw the light …
Before I saw the light, it always amazed me how the folk at Forestry Tasmania and their many compliant friends in Parliament,...
