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1.3KTarkine Embellished in Winter’s Charm …
After a brutal year of fire and flood, the tide has gracefully turned for the Tarkine as this noble land becomes cloaked...
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How technology disrupted the truth …
*Pic: myrealnameispete, Flickr … ‘For 500 years after Gutenberg, the dominant form of information was the printed page: knowledge was primarily delivered...
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Global map reveals ‘unsafe levels’ of biodiversity across 58pc of Earth’s surface
… Professor David Bowman of the University of Tasmania said the research is significant because it provided a global estimate and it...
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Why does our outrage just fade away … ?
• First published July 13 … *Pic: Liz West, Flickr ( HERE ) The Premier of NSW, Mike Baird, has made the...
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NATION: Someone else to blame …
It was Getup; it was Labor’s lies about Medicare. It was the super changes. It was the electorate getting it wrong. It...
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CHILCOT REPORT: Crushing Iraq War verdict …
This time it didn’t work, despite millions worldwide marching in protest … Forty five (or was it six) years ago I reported...
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Huon Valley Guessing Games: A council with no shame
ON a field of battle, and with all’s-fair-in-war the rules, such a struggle would go down in the annals as a memorable...
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Tasmania Police to look further into Fox Taskforce allegations
TASMANIA Police will conduct “further inquiries” into allegations of corruption in the former state government’s Fox Taskforce. The force announced on Thursday...
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Tobacco industry duplicity, legal arguments, the Legislative Council …
*Pic: Sony200boy, Tobacco Road, Flickr … and the tobacco free generation The Legislative Council Sessional Committee Government Administration A, has brought down...
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Melbourne = somewhere. Hobart = nowhere. The way it always has been …
… Why I am bothering to write this? Because an event of historical cultural significance took place on that Tuesday evening in...
