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1.1KFact-Checking Julia Jabour and Indi Hodgson-Johnston
*Pic: The Bob Barker pursues the illegally-fishing Thunder through a gale … The Sam Simon has collected more than 60km of net...
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STATE: Fixing hospitals? Here’s how. Nyrstar’s hand out …
The deplorable state of Tasmania’s public hospital system is a story too often told. For over a decade there have been inquiries,...
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Ongoing Salmon Expansion Threatens Endangered Whales and Puts Locals Offside
ABC reporter Conor Duffy’s picture of a salmon farm in southern Tasmania Recreational fishers, yachties, conservationists and locals are alarmed that Tassal...
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Why is there no one interested in coming to this place … ?
I recently took three tours of Chinese business people around some parts of the state that are for sale. I was told...
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STATE: The Irony; France, Tasmania … and Freedom of Speech
The Editor Dear Sir RE: FREEDOM OF SPEECH It is ironic that at the same time there are mass demonstrations in France...
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Reviewed! MOFO a few years down the track
Around the time when MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) first opened I started photo documenting the MOFO festival for the...
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Spinners who would sell their own grandmothers …
*Pic: PM Abbott and Nodders … this time including Liberal Bass MP Andrew Nicolic, a high-viz gentleman and in the background now-state...
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Smart meters proposed for Tasmania in a current government draft for public comment
“Policy designed to support smart grid investments should avoid setting unrealistic expectations, especially the belief that smart grid programs will reduce power...
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The Smith Street Band attacks Tony Abbott’s refugee policy with new song
*Pic by Ian Laidlaw from Noise11, here From Bob Dylan’s classic 1960s folk songs to the shocking, electric frenzy of the Sex...
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Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction. 2014 the hottest year on record …
A team of scientists, in a groundbreaking analysis of data from hundreds of sources, has concluded that humans are on the verge...
