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1.7KSusan Neill-Fraser faces her 8th year in Risdon prison
On Saturday August 20 Hobart grandmother Susan Neill-Fraser began her 8th year in Risdon prison. Still the haunting question remains to me...
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Launched! Physick … and a true Elder
Pete Hay … Book launches traditionally do two things. They celebrate the author who has been locked away in a place of...
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NATION: a government drowning by numbers
Pic: From Greg Hunt’s Twitter feed, HERE A fistful of dollars at the ready, our PM stoops to help a beggar on...
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Why Huon Valley Council should still be sacked
*Pic: Simone Watson, Peter Gutwein and Peter Coad Huon Valley Guessing Games It’s struggling, yet, kinda-sorta, “dysfunctional” Huon Valley Council is still...
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The Worthiness of Trees – Reflections from an Activist
Quietly the merging light crept within. Dawn awakens. Wafts of floating mist drift silently through the giant fingers of eucalypt. In peace...
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UNLESS … the giant freshwater lobster will disappear from the planet forever …
R. Mawbey’s pic of a giant freshwater crayfish, from Tasmania’s Parks and Wildlife Service, HERE The giant freshwater crayfish habitat RE: Public...
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NATION: A government in diabolical trouble …
Barely a month after being sworn in, the Turnbull government is in diabolical trouble: its Census, sensationally botched; its gulag on Nauru...
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Mines must pay levy and mining whistleblowers need protection …
*Pic: Isla MacGregor’s pic of Legacy Mine Waste at Copper Mines of Tasmania mine Queenstown The latest news of Copper Mines of...
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NZ: The incredible costs of Predator-Free
In NZ government’s projected scheme to make their country predator free one or two details have not been mentioned. The government’s push...
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Before it happens, here is the news from the Huon …
Huon Valley Guessing Games Sometimes, when facing an impossible challenge, one can be tempted to try just a little too hard. Down...
