Tasmanian Times
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4.0KA tale of two towns
Strahan circa 1950 The last building in right background is the old Bay View Hotel. The main Strahan railway station was opposite...
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I could go to jail for this next month
The Australian nutter … Khaled Sharrouf … New ASIO spy laws are not designed to combat jihadists: they are so ASIO and...
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The Rotorua Circus
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE being rather a new line of business for me, and having survived, if barely, last week’s South Pacific Forum in...
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Chattanooga’s Gig: how one city’s super-fast internet is driving a tech boom
Why the NBN is good for business … The city is one of the only places on Earth with internet as fast...
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Alderman Calls for due Diligence and Business Case for the Cable Car …
Chairman of Parks Committee HCC, Alderman Jeff Briscoe – and who moved the successful motion last Monday at the HCC – said...
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Abbott’s climate denial puts Hydro Tasmania on life support
Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, Greens senator for Tasmania offers the following comments on the impact of the Government’s climate policies on Tasmania: “The...
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Early vote in Tasmania’s Legislative Council flags end for forest peace deal
The Tasmanian Government is on the cusp of repealing the historic forestry peace deal after the Legislative Council voted in favour of...
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The callous, appalling and simplistic response of Brett Whiteley
Since the 1980’s I have worked both in Burnie on the North West Coast and now in Triabunna on Tasmania’s East Coast....
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Is this how you feel?
*Pic: Thomas Cole, Course of Empire … Fear, anxiety and exasperation are some of the worrying feelings being expressed by Australia’s leading...
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Hobart Baroque: Be realistic, demand the impossible!
Recently there has been much discussion about the funding issues of the Baroque Festival in Hobart. I have followed this discussion over...
