Tasmanian Times
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1.5K29 MPs let corporate interest dictate their votes …
• How they voted: YES: Farrell, Harriss, Hall, Rattray, Taylor, Forrest, Hiscutt, Goodwin, Dean, Mulder. NO: Armitage, Valentine, Gaffney, Finch. The Tasmanian...
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Michael Mansell calls for 7.5 per cent of state land tax …
Michael Mansell has called on all three political parties to commit to granting Aborigines 7.5% of land tax revenue collected in Tasmania...
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It’s time for a footpath from Hobart to Launceston …
A call for safe footpaths between all Tasmanian cities and towns—starting with a path between Hobart and Launceston. Our Proposal Over a...
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The Traitors’ Club
Sooner or later in life people move themselves to the status of bemused spectator. The point where concern or caring gives way...
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The best way to stop the boats and drive down tourism? Demolish what they have come to see …
The demolition of yet another century old house in Battery Point is imminent. Not just any old cottage but one intimately connected...
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Save the Tarkine applies to Supreme Court for release of secret EPA documents
Save the Tarkine has lodged an application in the Supreme Court seeking the release of documents pertaining to changes made to the...
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Find me …
Just one of scores of web-based appeal for information on Lucille Butterworth…missing since 1969. The man who claims to have driven the...
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The Rule Of Law – Tasmanian Style
Picture: Bob Burton “The prerequisite for everything political is moral. Politics should be ethics put into practice.” Vaclav Havel. “The ends justify...
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A Wave of Unreason
“A wave of unreason” is a phrase author Edgar Wallace used in a 1920s Gothic horror story, intriguingly entitled “The Black Abbott”....
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Big Coal’s annus horribilis
2013 was a bad, bad year for Big Coal. If the coal industry’s PR dream is for a stream of exuberant articles...
