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972How the loggers created the firestorm
“It’s called fuel loading,” said Parker Berrington, a firefighter, clutching an adze hoe amid crackling flames and groaning, collapsing tree branches, one...
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Frederick Augustus Gow Packer (1839-1902): Tasmanian organist and composer
Frederick Augustus Gow Packer was a brilliant Tasmanian composer of secular and religious music. At the time he was widely recognized as...
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To allow or to disallow, that is the question, Thursday: Progress ‘insufficient’
Today, in the Legislative Council, I gave notice of a motion to accept the Initial Reserve Order under the Tasmanian Forest Agreement....
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What did Andrew Nikolic know … ?
Jennifer Jacomb, Secretary of the Victims Of Abuse In The Australian Defence Force Association, announced today: Andrew Nikolic, like the rest of...
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Call for an apology for Bass Strait schemes that isolate Tasmania
Peter Brohier, Chairman of the former National Sea Highway and Bass Strait Transport Equality Committee’s, in Hobart today called on the Prime...
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A Tasmanian Houdini …
I made an error in my comments regarding John Gay being the CEO of Gunns at the time of the AGM on...
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Nick Evers remembered
Relatives and friends of one of Tasmania’s most popular political and literary figures, the late Nick Evers, will gather at the Royal...
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Rolf Harris charged with indecent assault and making indecent images of a child
Rolf Harris has made no public comment following revelations British police have charged him with nine counts of indecent assault and four...
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The Drums of War
Cairo: The US military is ready to strike Syria, the top defence official says as the momentum grows in France and Britain...
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Forest and Human Rights campaigners appear in court over Ta Ann protest
Today in Hobart magistrates court, two university students will appear, in charges they received when protesting at the Ta Ann mill in...
