Tasmanian Times
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1.4KSupermarket Monsters
The Nikitaras brothers’ corner store has a hallucinatory shine, like a set from a period movie. Staff in navy blue uniforms and...
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More Follies on the Capes
It seems that almost every month the 3 Capes project exposes another event of illogical blundering, bumbling bureaucracy and visionless political agendas....
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The Governor’s Legacy
The life of Peter Underwood was recently honoured by a State funeral, with eulogies to a distinguished lawyer, Chief Justice and respected...
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (26)
*Pic: Wikipedia’s picture of a pardalote from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striated_pardalote The “Respect the Mountain” forum ( here, here, and here ) at the...
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An Open Letter to Joe Hockey
We’re entitled … Smokin Joe and Matthias pre-Budget … Dear Joe Hockey, Back in 2012, when you said the age of entitlement...
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Ms Bacall is not amused
The brief [March 1986] said: photographic session in the Presidential Suite, followed by lunch with Miss Bacall. The omens were not good:...
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Kim Williams calls News Corp leaks a festival of vengeance
It’s all over Rupe … he just doesn’t know it … During my time at News Corporation there were frequent frustrating leaks,...
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Sue Neill-Fraser – fundamental failure of the rule of law
*Pic: Dr Bob Moles Behind the wire: Sue Neill-Fraser Several serious legal errors were made at the 2010 trial of Sue Neill-Fraser,...
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Tasmanian government challenged on seriously misleading denials …
As community concern rises over provisions to open 1.1 million ha of established reserves and rainforests to logging, the Tasmanian government has...
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State Governments can’t control the economy. There, I’ve said it …
*Pic: Peter Gutwein in Parliament, flanked by Premier Hodgman and Rene Hidding … ABC pic At the Federal level, there’s scope for...
