Tasmanian Times
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955We are no longer The Lucky Country
Everywhere you go you hear it. Our car, steel, manufacturing industries are uncompetitive and in decline. No local people are prepared to...
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Taken for a Ride
Queensland’s extreme VLAD laws revive the memory of Vlad the Impaler Premier Campbell Newman The VLAD* laws in Queensland are extreme and...
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Liquidators’ gravy train rolls along
TANYA Hamilton-Smith owed $28,000 to her boyfriend’s company when it went belly-up. The liquidator to this Adelaide retailer then spent half a...
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Overcoming the Tyranny of Distance
Even though Barry Greenberry resides over 17,000 kilometres away from Tasmania he has managed to speak truth to power from a distance....
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Tell me a story… about free trade
The story started long ago. You could pick a starting point in the 1950s and it’d be fair enough. You could pick...
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Tour Tasmania’s mining legacies from the past and in the making
The Mineral Policy Institute (MPI) and the Tasmanian Public and Environmental Health Network (TPEHN) are touring Tasmanian mine sites in February to...
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How Lara Giddings comprehensively failed … and why her demise is certain
When Gunns first entered voluntary administration 15 months ago it seemed as if the secured creditors (the banks) would get most of...
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Bob Gordon runs for Labor in Lyons
EX-FORESTRY Tasmania boss Bob Gordon will run for Labor in the March 15 state election. Mr Gordon yesterday confirmed he was seeking...
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Tasmanian Premier names election date as March 15. Lawrence analysis …
The Tasmanian Premier, Lara Giddings, has called a state election for March the 15th. Ms Giddings ended months of speculation today when...
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‘Six in pulp talks …’ Lawrence analysis
STATE Parliament looks set to be recalled before the election to consider new legislation that would quash a legal challenge to the...
