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1.1KCoroner & LegalIf it does succumb, it will take any hopes of reviving the Tasmanian forestry industry with it …
The dead parrot sketch ( HERE ) might have been one of Monty Python’s most popular, but the demise of our own...
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Dylan: The Simple Twist of Fate …
The decision of the Nobel awards committee to give Bob Dylan its prize for literature has met with a mixed response. Among...
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1.1KEconomy
MEDIA: Perfect storm facing digital news. Latest circn figs? Guardian’s great article …
From ad blockers, to Facebook and consumers who refuse to pay. It’s the challenge facing digital news and no one’s sure what...
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976International
Joburg: The Lost City
*Pic: Rckr88, Flickr who says: ‘Johannesburg Skyline. View from the 50th floor Observation Deck of Carlton Centre-Johannesburg, South Africa’ Don Knowler returned...
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The beermat of laughter, and loss …
TT Books: Ode to the Ancient Sub-Editor It’s not much to look at, the beermat from the former journalists’ watering hole, Montgomery’s...
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933Economy
Nature under threat from the Far Right
America’s wild and precious open spaces will be under pressure as never before if a Republican President representing the far-Right comes to...
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STATE: Tasmania the roadkill capital of the world … as captive-bred devils die …
*Pic: Ann Jones *Pic: of Don Knowler by Ann Jones There is no guidebook for this. The dark stain on the road....
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866Environment
The Knot in my Stomach
Don Knowler … and friends … The tiger snake gave me an unsympathetic stare. Forget ophidiophobia – the fear of snakes –...
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1.0KEconomy
A parrot from the past …
The parrot came from the north, carried on winds of salt spray and desert dust, and fragments of dead leaf of wattle...
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Chronicle 67: Life at the Typeface
In a series of articles published by the Tasmanian Times over the years – the Chronicles – Donald Knowler has set out...
