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1.1KMayne: Murdoch salaries hit $600 million — but you wouldn’t read about it
The Oz has revealed that the ABC’s Mark Scott got a pay rise — but the paper is strangely silent on the massive pay...
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Kerry Packer at the Queen’s Club
*Pic: Kerry Packer fronts a 1991 Print Media Inquiry … forcefully … Evan Whitton Background: Kerry Packer (1937-2005) was of course a...
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Can it get more ridiculous?
*Pic: Bob Gordon and then deputy Labor Leader Bryan Green The failed deal by Ron O’Connor and the Aprin Group to borrow...
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NATION: Abbott’s ‘nothing but bush’ lashed. MH17: Ukrainian fighter implicated …
*Pic: The Aboriginal Nations … pre-First Fleet … Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been accused of effectively declaring Australia “terra nullius” before...
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China and US strike deal on carbon cuts in push for global climate pact
*Painting: Destruction, The Course of Empire, Thomas Cole Wikipedia HERE Barack Obama aims for reduction of a quarter or more by 2025,...
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Jacqui Lambie is ‘a drama queen’ focused on power, says Clive Palmer
Palmer Unity party leader announces dumping from the party of Lambie’s chief of staff, Rob Messenger Clive Palmer has described one of...
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Tasmanian Water Monitoring – another casualty of State Budget cuts
*Pic: Fairfax picture of Dr Alison Bleaney in the George River in 2004 With regard to pesticide monitoring in waterways, Tasmania has...
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Philae probe makes historic landing on comet
The Philae lander on its way to the comet, photographed by the Rosetta spacecraft. Rosetta mission’s safe landing gives scientists their first...
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STATE: The State Treasurer urges unions to drop strike and accept government pay freeze offer
Tasmania’s Treasurer is labelling unions “selfish” for deciding to walk off the job in an action that will inconvenience parents, school children...
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Planning and governance reform: Will someone have the courage?
For those of you who have any history of involvement in planning in Tasmania, you’ll remember the days when the PLUC came...
