Tasmanian Times
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887Will ‘conservative white males’ ever be prepared to act on evidence on tobacco control?
Tasmania still has the highest smoking rates of any state in Australia. Around 1400 Tasmanians have died from tobacco related diseases and...
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Confessions of an amateur political campaigner
In May and June this year I put aside my usual work and worked flat out unpaid organising a campaign for a...
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Hiding behind terrorism
The news lately has been unremittingly bad – one attack after another. Mass murder by truck, mass shootings with guns, killings with...
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NZ: Zero Invasive Predators … and Scientists
A bunch of “scientists”, working under the acronym ZIP (Zero Invasive Predators), are not out to save any particular species, nor to...
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Huon Valley Guessing Games: The Plot Thickens
• Bob Hawkins in Comments: Good news from last night’s (July 27) meeting of the Huon Valley Council: Cr Smith’s motion squeaked...
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New Zealand’s ‘Impossible Dream’: a Predator Free Country
Poison notices greet tourists in New Zealand South Island bush robin is heavily hit by poison drops Native falcon – a predator...
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Royal Commission into banking, financial services: Why ASIC cannot do the job
In a previous article ( HERE ) I noted that Labor, the Greens and two-thirds of the public were calling for a...
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UTAS: If we build it twice, we ‘estimate’ they will come …
*Pic: Inveresk nearby … Looking towards Aurora Stadium, Monday June 6 at the height of flooding … The University of Tasmania’s northern...
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Religious Holidays: Time for a Change
*Pic: blair_25, Flickr, HERE. blair_25 says: ‘Christmas at Sunset: Christmas decorations in St Helens, Tasmania. Many streets in Tasmanian towns have such...
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Our Rural Roads (Part 8): Tourism and all that jazz
Another boom year for Tasmanian tourism in the winter is drawing to a close with the usual politicians and government funded spokespersons...
