The Federal Police should be asked to investigate

Mr Rist this, yet again, suggests a worrying malaise in our governance processes in Tasmania and the absolute power, not of the...

Why, Minister Llewellyn? Why?

To Tasmanian Times readers – particularly those in Canberra, but perhaps also those involved in politics in Tasmania. As I see it...

Devil disease hope

IN a major breakthrough scientists have finally unlocked the cancer that is wiping out Tasmanian devils. The discovery has killed the controversial...

Jim Wilkinson’s serious omission …

Chairman of the PAC fox inquiry, Jim Wilkinson is a lawyer by profession. He is quoted in the Mercury of 25 December...

Is it accepted? Will it work?

There are two simple criteria to test the effectiveness & efficiency of any contentious public policy: Is it accepted? Will it work?...

Christmas Eve Fox Report: Shit happens, but still no foxes!

Not one scientist working in DPIWE or the Invasive Animals CRC in the course of the PAC hearings or elsewhere has logically...

Foxes here, says report

A PARLIAMENTARY committee report is expected to reject “conspiracy theories” that foxes do not exist in Tasmania. The Joint Public Accounts Committee...

Gunns’ spray and the clean, green facade

On November 30, 2009 Gunns P/L notified in writing neighbours to their Timothy TR-196a plantations (Diddleum Plains) that ‘due to high populations...

Build the largest petition in history …

Crisis in Copenhagen – the pressure is building Wow – 48 hours left in the summit and this global petition is exploding!...

Building the largest petition in history