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1.6KRemembrance, Memory and Silence: Forgetting a Larrikin Tasmanian Digger
Corporal J.H. “Dummy” Armstrong at Adelaide River, Northern Territory, 1941, just before going to Timor with the 2/40 Battalion. (Photo courtesy Sue...
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Open letter to the Premier
Premier, On 17 July, via Tasmanian Times HERE:, and in some case directly by email, I alerted Forestry Tasmania, and others, of...
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The hero at the heart of the Royal Commission
Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox – the lifetime copper whose revelations finally triggered PM Julia Gillard’s decision to launch a Royal Commission...
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Groundswell shuts down Ta Ann veneer mill. More on the Sarawak connections …
Grassroots environmental group Groundswell have today shut down operations at Ta Ann’s veneer mill in Smithton, with a peaceful protest. The group...
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The suppression of our animality … and its terrible consequences. The Royal Commission
A senior serving police officer, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox, claims the Catholic church covered up crimes of paedophile priests, silenced investigations...
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Cash for Containers: A Solution to Pollution Choking Tasmania’s Clean Image
“The atrocious amount of rubbish found around this state is an ugly problem Tasmanians ignore too often,” Australian Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson...
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Premier Giddings’ opening of Brighton bypass insensitive
Premier Lara Giddings has been labelled ‘insensitive’ by Aborigines for officiating at the opening of the Brighton bypass. Spokesperson for the Tasmanian...
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The Wacky World of Tasmanian Liberal Forest Policy
Sign of the Times: Picture taken last week at the Gunns ex (fairly recently) sawmill at Austins Ferry (between Granton and Claremont)....
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Quamby – The Trashing of Aboriginal History
On 17 July this year I described the importance of the area around Quamby Bluff to the Big Nation and Pallittorre clans...
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Forestry Tasmania: Wilful deception and crass incompetence
The Bosses: Forestry Minister Bryan Green, right, was not told Forestry Chief Bob Gordon, left, had been re-appointed … It’s rare to...
