Tasmanian Times
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803We love freedom, yet our fabulous wealth is created by slavery, genocide, and militarism
Leunig, with permission http://www.leunig.com.au/ Once upon a time in ancient Sparta there was a Council of Elders, called the Gerousia. This was...
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Sacred Promises
After 70 years in and out of government the Liberal Party remains deeply uncertain about egalitarian values; it has never been able...
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Why the Official Explanation of MH370’s Demise Doesn’t Hold Up
Investigators searching for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight were ebullient when they detected what sounded like signals from the plane’s black boxes....
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (10)
Pic*: Radford monument on Radford’s Track … Pic: Rob Walls, http://robertwalls.wordpress.com/ The “Respect the Mountain” forum ( here, here, and here )...
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Elizabeth Kolbert: The Sixth Extinction
The chemist F. Sherwood Rowland is one of the few people in history about whom it can accurately be said: he helped...
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Will Gaming Save the Earth?
The Oculus Rift, developed for use in the virtual worlds, being used to drive a tank in Norway ~ image from here...
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Jan Davis: TFGA supports continuing use of 1080
The Tasmanian Government had made a sensible and pragmatic decision in allowing landowners to continue to use 1080 for control of browsing...
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Tasmania’s emergency services hamstrung by ineffective radio network, report says
• Today (Friday, May 9) … Tasmania’s emergency services hamstrung by ineffective radio network, report says EMMA HOPE Police reporter Mercury May...
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Shree: Tasmania will certainly never see a cent in royalties …
*Pic: Bryan Green, former Deputy Premier; now Opposition Leader, and Shree’s Sanjay Loyalka … Pic from here Every analyst has a different...
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Foxes: Read for Yourself; The Background Briefing Transcript
*Pic: Under their watch … Former Labor Minister for foxes David Llewellyn listens (?) to former Labor Premier Lara Giddings, House of...
