Tasmanian Times
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900‘Treasurer used government resources to help the pro-pokies lobby, say Greens’
The Tasmanian Greens have accused the Liberals of using government resources to help the gambling lobby fight an unfavourable report into poker...
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Lost Copy: The Endless Wars: Iraq and Afghanistan, John Martinkus
In The Operators, a great book on the war in Afghanistan, the American journalist Michael Hastings is scathing of reporters who spend...
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‘More Crown Casino poker machine allegations’
Andrew Wilkie The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, will discuss further allegations from a new whistleblower about poker machines at Crown...
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Kim Beazley: the best 21st century Labor PM we never got to vote in … ?
“For months Perth has buzzed with speculation that Kim Beazley will be appointed Western Australia’s governor. [He now has been, and thus...
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Letter to the Editor … My Neighbours are being evicted …
*Pic: Representative … Flickr Paul Sableman Dear Editor, My neighbours are being evicted. One by one they are being driven from their...
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Election posters …
*Cartoons: Martyn Turner, used with permission: https://www.facebook.com/martynturnercartoons/ . http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/martyn-turner
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The massive immorality of mass immigration
First published April 19 Despite an overwhelming majority of Australians opposing mass immigration we continue to engorge our nation’s population like a...
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‘Richard Flanagan: ‘Our politics is a dreadful black comedy’ – press club speech in full’
*Pic: Richard Flanagan: ‘Since the marriage equality vote it’s clear that Australians are not the mean and pinched people we had been...
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‘Doctors alarmed by renewed Tarkine destruction … ‘
First published April 19 Tasmanian doctors have been alarmed to see escalated threats to biodiversity with renewed and seemingly accelerated destruction of...
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The Good Samaritan: Give Directly to Refugees
*Pic: Image from here First published April 18 Alain de Botton argues in his book ‘Religion for Atheists’ that religions still have...
