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• Politics

  Battery Point: Castles built on sand

  Margaretta Pos The Hobart City Council will pay $120,000 for the inter-tidal zone it will compulsorily acquire from the four titleholders of...

• Politics

  The Bruvvers are at it again

  Margaretta Pos THE shameful behaviour of the Exclusive Bruvvers of Battery Point continues into the New Year. Despite protestations to the contrary,...

• Article

  Rockefellers’ Tassie trail

  Margaretta Pos, Crikey Crikey can also reveal that Nekon Pty Ltd, which owns the Bayside Burnie Hotel and has bought a significant...

• Politics

  Battery Point: jetties on the foreshore

  Margaretta Pos A barge anchored offshore, a gang of men at work, ropes, chains, steel girders drilled into rocks and set in...

• Article

  A beautiful day

  Margaretta Pos It was a magical day at the Iron Pot Bay vineyard in the Tamar Valley. Or rather, at the nearby...

• Politics

  Mate, mate, maaaaaate

  Margaretta Pos It is worth noting that Alderman Valentine’s campaign manager for the last HCC election was Chris Webster, now a magistrate....

• Politics

  Battery Point: public’s right of access

  Margaretta Pos THE Director-General of Lands wrote to a Battery Point foreshore property owner in 1982, telling him that he had encroached...

• Politics

  Battery Point: are the titles valid?

  Margaretta Pos THE validity of two titles on the Battery Point foreshore in Hobart which extend to the low water mark was...

• Arts

  $10,000 prize winner

  Margaretta Pos Tasmanian master craftsman Marcus Tatton won the $10,000 Sydney Water prize at the 2006 Sculptures by the Sea Bondi official...

• Environment

  Battery Point looney tunes

  Margaretta Pos Leo is one of those blow-ins who thinks he knows a thing or two the locals don’t. He thinks a...