Tasmanian Times
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812Would you consider offering yourself as a candidate?
Week after week in Tasmanian Times, I read excellent and insightful comments in response to the many TT articles that document the...
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Barnett Government’s Shark Cull Program delivers first cruel and barbaric fatality …
In the early hours of yesterday morning the fisherman hired to perform Barnett’s dirty work of killing protected species, went out to...
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Why I am standing for the Palmer United Party
It takes a brave woman to nominate for politics at the best of times but to put your name forward for an...
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Pray As You Go
He’s a big fellow. Uniformed for instant ID as an Aurora field officer, he moves up my steps onto the balcony and...
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The Dictatorship of Majority Government
Senator Christine Milne on Minority vs Majority Government in Tasmania … The Deal is done in the Back Room and deilvered in...
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McKim on royalties – too little too late
Nick McKim’s recent attack on Labor’s decision to [i]favourably consider[/i] deferring royalty payments to Shree Minerals is indicative of just how tongue...
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A new Devil: Cost benefit analysis
Perhaps I am just becoming a peevish old man. I don’t think so because I view life as ‘pretty good’ and wake...
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Organic farmer vs. GM farmer facing trial on February 10
World’s first case January 22, Melbourne – Organic farmer Steve Marsh will soon face his neighbour in the WA Supreme Court in...
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The art of the reptile
Amazing Scenes: Adventures of a Reptile of the Press (The Fairfax Library, 1987) is a collection of Evan Whitton’s journalism. @EvanWhitton1. Willy-nilly,...
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Betty King … first white woman in Australia
In September 1963, the late Henry Shoobridge of Bushy Park, Tasmania, who was a well know local identity and hop grower, placed...
