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1.2KDemocracy TasmaniaEmptiness in the Sky without Diamonds
PUTTING ASIDE the sheer crassness of it all, there is something symbolically elegant in a “live debate” between pseudo-Labor leader David Bartlett...
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821Environment
Llewellyn: Minister of State for Gunns
The cover for David Llewellyn’s trip to Japan was initially to try to help the Tasmanian vegetable industry. It was a cover...
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710Politics
Tasmania: The Word, the Secret and the Way
“You are a writer, I am a doer…. You can intellectualise (sic) as much as you like, but in the process you...
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773Environment
Dissent and be Damned
Thank you Garry Stannus for raising an issue at the heart of the primary ideology of our cultural mindset, translated more specifically...
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830Economy
David Bartlett’s Melbourne Cup Day 2009
What better time than Melbourne Cup Day 2009, the first Tuesday in November, for Tasmania’s ultra-cynical Premier, David Bartlett, to announce the...
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876Society
Sheer Terror
A visit. Several years ago, while visiting my adult children in Melbourne, I waited for my daughter to return home from a...
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757Environment
High moral ground indeed
The only reason that I make this suggestion is that the piece ( Here ) is so illuminating about the nature and...
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838Environment
The Examiner and Lennon: Contempt for due process
The Examiner devoted pages to this story, including editorial comment drawing direct links between the vandalism and the organized opposition to the...
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4.3KEnvironment
Nicklason: Above and beyond cant and media cowardice
But it has outdone itself in spades with its report of the outcome of the unforgettable and outrageous SLAPP* suit by Gunns...
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728Politics
The Government simply appears to have stopped listening to the people …
Such it seems has happened to the Bartlett Government and its elite re-election team that has been beavering away in the bowels...
