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873Children in detention exposed to danger, Human Rights Commission finds
More than 300 children committed or threatened self-harm in a 15-month period in Australian immigration detention, 30 reported sexual assault, nearly 30...
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Energy Strategy ignores the big issues
Government reports on energy policy are almost inevitably boring and full of jargon and this is certainly the case with the Tasmanian...
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UTAS increases direct fossil fuel investments ten-fold
Hobart, (10/02/2015): Amidst growing concerns about the impacts of climate change the University of Tasmania’s investments in fossil fuel companies grew ten-fold...
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Harriss Protest Bill: It works
*Pic: Premier Hodgman with the law’s architect, Resource Minister Paul Harriss … Yesterday saw the first application of Paul Harriss’ Workplaces (Protection...
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Lies, damned lies and Peter Gutwein
It was, if you listen to Peter Gutwein and don’t bother with the actual figures, ‘a merry Christmas for Tassie retailers’ (...
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Salamanca excavation deserves EPA attention
Hobart City Council Alderman Reynolds has raised new questions about whether the excavation required for the building of Montpelier Retreat adjacent to...
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Island magazine rethinks digital publishing …
… increases print run by 200% Island magazine has announced today that from 2015 it will only be available in a print...
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The Hobart Cup demo …
During 2014, 124 racehorses died on the track in Australia. Catching the most public attention were the two horses that died during...
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Fairness as a political principle
While a popular view aligns Liberals with conservative values and personal freedom, and Labor with egalitarian values and social reform, no-one argues...
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LNP spills Abbott’s guts
Pic: Peter Grace Yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff, And damned...
