Tasmanian Times
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7641000 Letters and Counting
Community members from Carlton River, Dodges Ferry & Copping have sent over 1000 letters to the Regional Development Australia Fund (RDAF), protesting...
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Pulp mill dreaming
An anthropological study of cargo-cultism in an island off the south coast of Australia The belief in cargo-cultism of the Natives of...
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A monumental failure of regulatory authority … ?
Like almost anyone who lives in Texas, I have visited the town of West, uncountable times. Nobody drives I-35 through the middle...
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Organised criminals start common law
This is the fourth extract from Our Corrupt Legal System, by legal historian Evan Whitton. Much of it will be new to...
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To Sing Among Stars
View into a Bernal Sphere orbital space settlement, one of the space habitat designs where an Earth gravity can be generated via...
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Bob McMahon …
Bob McMahon as many remember him: Taking the fight against the pulp mill to Parliament Tasmanians Against the Pulp Mill leader Bob...
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Banned super-trawler in new troubled waters
The outcast super-trawler Margiris has found a new place to go – one of the world’s most troubled jack mackerel fisheries in...
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Tasmania, Tourism and the Elephant in the Room
There seems to be an accepted wisdom in Tasmania across a broad range of political persuasions that tourism is one of our...
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Dr Bob Brown announced as new patron of rebranded Tarkine campaign
The Tarkine National Coalition is pleased to make two exciting announcements that we believe will help increase the national profile of this...
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Kidney disease is Tassie’s ‘silent killer’
WHO links pesticides to kidney disease in Sri Lanka and bans 3 hazardous pesticides still used in Australia Tasmania has an increasing...
