Tasmanian Times
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1.3KRoad Safety: Inaction by our local and state politicians and relevant authorities … (1)
Welcome to 2016. Unfortunately, some of our fellow travellers from 2015 will not be with us this year. No death is easy...
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AFMA Continues to Shield Super Trawler From Community Consultation
Conservation and recreational fishing groups are outraged by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority’s latest ploy to shield the Small Pelagic Fishery, in...
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A Tasmanian Murder Mystery: Who is Killing Ross?
The once palatial Horton College at Ross, is now no more than a crumbling brick entrance: how much of the heritage of...
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Gunns, Solvency and the 30th June 2011
*Pic: John Gay leaves court. Pic: Garry Stannus In an effort to determine the date of Gunns’ insolvency the Gunns’ liquidator PPB...
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Moratorium mocked as exploration expands
Mineral Resources Tasmania (MRT) is offering the Petroleum (Category 4) Exploration Release Area 981 to mining companies between Jan 18 and 22....
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Kathmandu founder Jan Cameron plans rival bid to buy Tasmanian dairy giant VDL
*Pic: H’s painting of Jan Cameron … Businesswoman Jan Cameron plans to underwrite a rival bid for Tasmanian dairy giant Van Diemen’s...
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Three Capes Track – it is free if you camp …
*Pic: By Ted Mead on Pillar Cliffs The Three Capes project impact. Pic: Rob Blakers, http://www.robblakers.com Letter to the Editor, Tasmanian Times,...
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The memories …
It was some time in the early 70s (can’t remember precisely as things were rather vague back then …) Our dealer in...
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The truth about John Howard’s East Timor ‘liberation’
As Indonesian troops fired on a compound of refugees in Dili, John Howard directed the AFP to withdraw. Had they followed orders,...
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I don’t give a **** if we agree about Climate Change
• Brisbane Times: Richard Denniss, Chief Economist, The Australia Institute: Two waves sink Malcolm Turnbull’s rhetoric Embracing the climate challenge: Tasmania’s draft...
