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1.1KWhat's OnThe Doomed Battalion … Petrarch’s Saturday, Hobart Bookshop Nov 7
Doomed Battalion is the story of the men of the 2/40 Battalion – mainly Tasmanians – and its associated army units, sent...
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1.0KCoroner & Legal
The Rule Of Law – Tasmanian Style
Picture: Bob Burton “The prerequisite for everything political is moral. Politics should be ethics put into practice.” Vaclav Havel. “The ends justify...
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1.1KCoroner & Legal
Tell me a story… about free trade
The story started long ago. You could pick a starting point in the 1950s and it’d be fair enough. You could pick...
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2.1KEconomy
Atrophy
“Promote an expansion of the forest estate by integrating more trees onto agricultural land.” Martin Ferguson, December 2013, secret report commissioned by...
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922Economy
Snollygostering in Port Macquarie: The Numpty Abbott Entitlement. Randall’s ‘$5,259 trip’
“Look”, said Tony Abbott, “Port Macquarie was a marginal electorate”. The message was unambiguous. As the prospective Prime Minister he was entitled...
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945Economy
Something Phoney Happened on the Way to the Senate. Albo v Shorten
The Australian Senate is, as Paul Keating so aptly described it, unrepresentative swill. Everyone knows it and everyone knows why. But will...
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916Coroner & Legal
Loosing the Dogs of Xenophobia
“Human beings in particular cannot be discarded. They remain in some way to haunt us.” (Christopher Koch, Out of Ireland, 1999) It’s...
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854National
How will you determine who to vote for?
#8 David, it is apposite to note that Andrew Wilkie revealed in the Murdoch press this weekend how he had been unfairly...
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974Coroner & Legal
Lurch Beyond Brutopia. The Manus Whistleblower …
Back in November 2006 Kevin Rudd wrote an article for The Monthly titled Howard’s Brutopia, in which he contrasted his own “social...
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1.0KEconomy
Silence!
Let the Masters of Silence claim us All! “I am not a dictator. I have only simplified democracy.” Adolf Hitler 1936 Writing...
