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1.3KEconomyThe Devine Lie
Miranda Devine — born with a silver typewriter at her fingertips — has long run the convenient fiction that she stands with...
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1.2KEconomy
Tasmania’s lesson: when Labor attacks the Greens, it threatens itself
For the best part of the past 12 years the ALP ran Tasmania as if it were a sub-branch of Norm Gallagher’s...
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797Politics
Healing the Great Wound
It’s hard to believe that for over eleven years we have let the Tasmanian ALP run our island as if it was...
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936Economy
What power?
On 14 June 2004, the Forest Industries Association of Tasmania (FIAT) released a 70 page report it had commissioned entitled ‘Impact of...
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847Coroner & Legal
A brilliant exposition
A brilliant exposition ! It is a great comfort to know that we have someone of Richard’s intellect, integrity, courage and understanding...
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896Economy
Zombie politics, the self-perpetuating mediocracy
Speech made on 29 January, 2010, Hobart, on ending of the Gunns 20 writ I WANT today to say simple things. That...
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920Article
A subtle weaving of passion and despair
And the lost are a brutalised Tasmanian tribe rounded up like cattle. The history of the slaughter is documented as it is...
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1.7KEconomy
Gunns out of control
This story begins with a Tasmanian man fern (Dicksonia antarctica) for sale in a London nursery. Along with the healthy price, some...
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Arts
Flanagan at the Sydney Writers’ Festival
RICHARD FLANAGAN In his Closing Address to the Sydney Writers’ Festival, Richard Flanagan mounts an impassioned and stinging attack on plans of...
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Arts
Saints and Savages
WILLIAM BOYD, New York Times, Sunday Book Review, Published: June 24, 2009 In 1854 Lady Jane Franklin, the widow of the polar...
