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879HistoryThinking About Anzac 2011
The latest ADF Academy scandal, followed by the highly publicised Etches – Wilkie story, and then by the news that the Academy...
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960Coroner & Legal
As nightfall does not come all at once
Tasmania 2007-2011: Undermining Democracy “As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight...
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830Economy
The Tasmanian Plantation Elephant
The whole question of Tasmania’s long term land and water management is now up for grabs. Tasmania’s plantation estate is the elephant...
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926Coroner & Legal
Burke and the EPBC Act: Beyond Ignorance and Ineptitude
Under the terms of the federal EPBC Act, the Minister responsible for its administration, Tony Burke had a duty to carry out...
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939Economy
Forestry Roundtable – Working for the Man
“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates and men decay.” Oliver Goldsmith, 1770 The background to this...
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1.9KDemocracy Tasmania
Launceston Examiner : Subverting Freedom of the Press?
There is a real conundrum in the region of northern Tasmania, centred on Launceston, about the role of the local print media...
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1.4KCoroner & Legal
Section 11 Again, and Again … FSC report. March Mill start?: L’Estrange
The suggestion that section 11 if the PMAA does not deliberately remove citizens’ appeal rights if they are damaged or destroyed by...
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1.1KEconomy
Naked and Exposed
Lara Giddings, just one day after taking over the Tasmanian Pemier’s office, has apparently said she won’t rule out the Tasmanian government...
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853Economy
Bartlett’s World of Forestry Fantasy
The day after an “anti-pulp mill meeting” in Launceston, noteworthy for Warwick Raverty’s suggestion that Gunns should consider using compensation money (for...
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1.3KEconomy
The Future Eaters: Being Vigilant for The Man 2007-2010
Events are apparently moving fairly quickly to implement the forestry roundtable agreement, whatever that means,with the combined voices of the Tasmanian Greens,...
