Tasmanian Times
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1.5KFSC® Australia welcomes Forestry Tasmania to membership
Melbourne, 9th August, 2013: FSC Australia announced today that it had accepted a membership application from Forestry Tasmania. FSC Australia Chief Executive...
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It’s on: Rudd gets the Col shoulder as Murdoch telegraphs his punches
A little over two years ago I wrote in this column that at a gathering in the US of his most senior...
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The corrupt civil process
This is the 17th extract from Evan Whitton’s Our Corrupt Legal System, available free at netk.net.au/whittonhome.asp. Whitton is a legal historian, a...
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Treasure Islanders
WHEN 18-year-old Arthur Orchard enlisted in 1915, his father wrote a letter to the military giving his son a “free hand” to...
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Into the future … Estonia tells Tasmania: Shed Legacy Thinking
In the lead up to the 2013 Federal election, we discuss the possibilities on offer to produce a thriving Tasmania. There are...
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Mansell accuses Federal Minister of pork barrelling on $1m west coast Aboriginal funding
Aboriginal spokesman Michael Mansell fears the nearly $1m for Aboriginal rangers on the west coast of Tasmania will be used to prop...
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Daily Telegraph Election Coverage Undermines Australian Democracy
The Daily Telegraph’s coverage of the Federal election undermines Australian Democracy, Wikileaks Party Senate Candidates said today (Sat). In addition to its...
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After 35 Years in North Hobart – Zucco bows out for a new direction
In 1977 Marti Zucco a young enterprising Melbourne restaurateur opened the first Marti Zucco restaurant in the main North Hobart strip which...
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Convict women’s lives brought into focus at Cascades Female Factory Historic Site
Some of the less well-known history of Tasmania’s convict past has been made more accessible with the opening of new conservation and...
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Farewell Dear Friends
A strange place is the World Wide Web. Many years ago, as a bored employee of a Hobart-based stockbroking firm, I started...
