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806NATION: Like a pantomime horse …
*Pic: Caring Malc … PM on the spruik … with Health Minister Sussan Ley at Sydney Children’s Hospital … Image from the...
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Unsustainable Tasmanian waste management
*Pic: The SWS waste dump site … More waste is going to Tasmanian landfill than ever before. The current form of waste...
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Jobs, Sackings, and the Norfolk Island Public Service
*Pic: Image from HERE This letter first appeared in The Norfolk Islander and on Norfolk Online News, 28 May 2016 Dear Editor,...
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In the three years of the Abbott/Turnbull government my premium has increased by 31% …
After I received an incorrect bill from Medibank for $3,234.34 for the latest quarter I phoned its free number to object –...
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The Lesser of Two Weevils …
*Pic: “Both parties are making Jacqui Lambie look smart and talented …” Image from HERE Where is the vision? Where is the...
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Doubts about jobs and growth
*Pic: Opulence of the movers and shakers … International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde (L) shakes hands with Peru President Ollanta...
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Be under no illusion: Malcolm Turnbull wants to destroy Australian literature
*Pic, Credit: CeBIT Australia. Source: Flickr http://bit.ly/1r1Eqw8 Speech given to the Australian Book Industry Awards in Sydney on 19 May The government’s...
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Tasmanian devil cancer research down a blind alley?
Scientists have been investigating a deadly disease afflicting the Tasmanian devil, a carnivorous marsupial on the verge of extinction due to what...
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How taxpayers are obliged to fund a racket
*Pic: Image from HERE Taxpayers pay the wages of judges, prosecutors and police and fund two legal systems. So far as I...
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NATION: There are Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) produces a monthly set of unemployment figures based on an internationally sanctioned definition of unemployment. To...
