Tasmanian Times
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1.2KA selective high school in Tasmania would be greeted favourably by Christopher Pyne
A response to Hans Willink: Grammar – A Selective Public High School A late contribution. The creation of a selective high school...
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Tasmania’s ban on genetically modified crops made indefinite in bid to protect clean, green brand
The Tasmanian Government has extended indefinitely the state’s moratorium on genetically modified crops and animals. The blanket ban on genetically modified organisms...
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Missing millions and the law of triviality
ABC pic of Lara Giddings and David Bartlett … building a stronger Tasmania … Parkinson’s law of triviality briefly states that the...
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Harpoon ship stopped. Harpoon ship poised. Fleet disarray. Whales killed inside sanctuary. Brett …
Nisshin Maru leaves the Antarctic Treaty Zone. Pic: Eliza Muirhead / Sea Shepherd Australia • UPDATE, January 9, PM: Harpoon ship stopped!...
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Running Ghost Tours in Tasmania?
Extant, Extinct or Eradicated? Does Tasmania’s economy depend on maintaining the existence of two mythic (cryptic) creatures? Over the past 70 years...
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Code Fail
All about Isaac Asimov, Wikipedia, here Bouncing around the Web in the first week of January were snippets from a 1964 article...
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Evan’s last extract: How to get justice …
The story so far A racket is a criminal enterprise. The system in common law countries, England and its colonies, began as...
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When Justice loses its appeal
A murder conviction which eminent lawyers and legal experts say is quite possibly a gross miscarriage of justice has exposed serious deficiencies...
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Justification and excuse
Ideas matter; they shape the fate of individuals and the destiny of nations. Take John Howard’s alternative reason for the Iraq War...
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Abbott’s eco folly will cost us
HEARTACHE from the flooding of Lake Pedder in 1973 by a state government hell bent on development galvanised a global green movement...
