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837EconomyThe State Government’s under-funding of health …
Tasmanian government health funding would have to increase by at least $500 million to bring this state’s services up to the standard...
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918Economy
The Far-Right threat to Federation …
*Pic: Far-Right WA Treasurer Mike Nahan and Premier Colin Barnett … How WA can fix its own GST problem Western Australia’s far-right...
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759Economy
Jobs: Tassie’s recovery halts …
b>The recovery in Tasmania’s employment figures, after slowing in recent months, came to a halt in February. The latest labour force data...
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908Economy
Health reform … and the perils of hope
In his first-ever ministry, Michael Ferguson is experiencing the heady attractions of creating hope. If the rest of his government does not...
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902Economy
Seven per cent can’t afford the doctor
In a single year, seven per cent of Tasmanian adults were prevented from going to a GP because of cost. And as...
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1.1KEconomy
Medicare: the co-payment lives!
Tony Abbott says the Medicare co-payment is ‘dead, buried and cremated’. But it’s already arising from the political crematorium as a much...
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916Arts
Brisbane Baroque is the reinvention of a highly successful music festival …
*Pic: of Leo Schofield. In so many respects, it was the perfect formula: a week of Baroque music in the colonial splendour...
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1.3KEconomy
Lies, damned lies and Peter Gutwein
It was, if you listen to Peter Gutwein and don’t bother with the actual figures, ‘a merry Christmas for Tassie retailers’ (...
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1.3KArts
Hobart Baroque? No. Brisbane Baroque
Leo Schofield’s renowned baroque music festival ‒ which began in Hobart but was refused adequate funding by the Tasmanian Premier ‒ has...
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977Economy
STATE: Fixing hospitals? Here’s how. Nyrstar’s hand out …
The deplorable state of Tasmania’s public hospital system is a story too often told. For over a decade there have been inquiries,...
