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955HealthA horror budget for patients
Deep, deep behind the back-on-track guff, the state government has hidden the details of its ongoing evisceration of public hospitals. You will...
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973Health
More young Tasmanians take up smoking
New figures showing an unexpected increase in smoking among young Tasmanians will put pressure on the state government to move forward with...
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968Arts
The festival that got away …
*Pic: Ulrike Schneider as Agrippina. Brisbane Baroque 2016, produced by Leo Schofield and Jarrod Carland. It is deep in the nature of...
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1.0KEconomy
STATE: Lies trump truth in the GST carve-up
Anyone listening recently to the Treasurer, Peter Gutwein, is likely to believe Tasmania lost heavily in the latest round of GST allocations....
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827Economy
NATION: Turnbull’s Tax Plan: A disaster for Tasmania … ?
At first glance, the plan to give income taxing powers back to the states so they can fund their own hospitals and...
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983Economy
The great big crash in tobacco consumption
Tobacco consumption in Australia has fallen by 48 per cent in the past decade, a new analysis of official statistics shows. This...
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959Economy
The pathology scare campaign
There have been loud squeals of confected pain following the federal government’s decision to abolish a handout to big pathology and imaging...
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1.1KEconomy
Mt Lyell re-opening likely within two to three years
*Pic: The Mt Lyall mine … *Pic: Copper … in its raw state … The Tasmanian government is now sure that the...
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814Economy
STATE: Wages in private boom but public slump
Public sector rates of pay in Tasmania rose by less in the September quarter than anywhere in Australia with the exception of...
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943Economy
STATE: The Truth about Jobs …
*Pic: The buck stops here … ? Premier Hodgman (left) and Treasurer Gutwein in Parliament … … Another dismal employment scorecard Tasmania’s...
