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  Dead can vote on merger

  DAMIEN BROWN, Mercury DEAD people have been asked to vote in the proposed multi-million-dollar merger of two state financial institutions. The shock...

• Economy

  Credit Unions and the Profits of Doom

  LEONARD COLQUHOUN, MARGARET STUART-MACKENZIE We have just received, as members of MyState Financial, a 240-page Information Booklet, the size of a small...

• Politics

  Hawks… the claimed benefits …

  via LEONARD COLQUHOUN in response to Here is a box from The Examiner listing the [claimed] benefits to Tasmania from the Government’s...

• Democracy Tasmania

  The quality of pollie is not strained

  LEONARD COLQUHOUN Comment 30, perhaps the problem with the Braddon voters not having “elected representatives with better standards” is with the choice...

• History

  A raving whacko, cum sex symbol …

  LEONARD COLQUHOUN Alcibiades, a raving whacko cum sex symbol cum naval genius; … Two other matters need tackling: one is the pressure...

• Arts

  Freedom of speech at risk?

  Leonard Colquhoun Palaeo-versions of Tasmanian Times ( http://www.oldtt.pixelkey.biz/jurassic/ ) had a side-bar with this dictum from a German philosopher (widely considered after...

• Politics

  We are individuals

  Leonard Colquhoun Finally, the Left doesn’t see you, anti-semite watch, and you, Duncan Grant, nor me, nor anyone, as individuals. Rather we...

• Politics

  Hawks: Well, she would, wouldn’t she?

  Leonard Colquhoun Besides, Ms O’Byrne’s claims have a whiff of “Well, she would, wouldn’t she” to them. (Thank you once again, Mandy...

• History

  Dickens stuffed it in Oliver Twist

  via Leonard Colquhoun SMH Doctors writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) say they have uncovered the gruel truth behind the Victorian...

• History

  PIRATES, POMPEY & PRAGMATISM – Or HOSTIS HUMANI GENERIS

  Leonard Colquhoun Not quite as simple as that. Simply thumping the Somali pirates will give only a short-term respite, as the history...