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1.6KHistoryRemembrance, Memory and Silence: Forgetting a Larrikin Tasmanian Digger
Corporal J.H. “Dummy” Armstrong at Adelaide River, Northern Territory, 1941, just before going to Timor with the 2/40 Battalion. (Photo courtesy Sue...
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1.1KEconomy
Plantation Isle Forever!
Just a few days before the nominated deadline for the IGA process, when we were all thinking that Tasmania’s monocultural plantation estate...
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916Economy
Huge Win for Tassie: Hot Shot Advisers!
The ABC has done it again! On Friday last week the statewide-morning progam, hosted by Leon Compton, was really on to something....
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1.5KDemocracy Tasmania
Clear air exclusion
And the people watch … the public gallery in the House of Assembly, State Parliament The thing that springs to mind upon...
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1.3KEconomy
Tassie Water: Pure Enough for Roxby Downs?
In the last week the idea of rolling out a water pipeline from Tasmania to Victoria and South Australia has been given...
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2.6KHistory
An Anzac Story – Finding the Nurses in Sumatra
On 15 February 1942, the day that Singapore fell to the Japanese, a ship named the Vyner Brooke was sunk in the...
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966National
Labor Death Wish – cutting umbilical cords
Jon Kudelka: http://www.kudelka.com.au/ In a recent review of two biographies of Vladimir Putin, the reviewer Ian Cummins referred to Arthur Koestler’s description...
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934Economy
Burning Tasmania: The Mercury Perspective
Photo by Rob Blakers, http://www.robblakers.com/ According to the Mercury’s coverage of the sterilisation burns in southern Tasmania in the last few days...
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970Economy
Sterilisation Burns for Tourists a Must for Tasmania’s Future Prosperity
Pic: Rob Blakers Those driving past Brady’s Lookout early yesterday afternoon, towards Launceston, would have seen one of the most magnificent scenic...
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1.4KEconomy
West’s Protest-Free Pulp Mill Vision: A Recipe for Escalating Conflict
The pulp mill is front and centre of the West report (The report Lab-Lib would rather you did not see). But it...
