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862If a child of an addict could ask the Federal Group why … ?
I am no longer under the spell of the Pokies. I was for more than 30 years … but am one of...
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Was Australia intended as a hemp colony?
Two hundred years ago hemp, cannabis sativa, was used as the basis for sail and rope. In the Age of Sail hemp...
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The man on the mountain
ABC pic On his way to work each day Donald Knowler would look up at a silent, majestic Mount Wellington and want...
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Tasmania’s toxic time bomb
TASMANIA’S Environmental Protection Agency is refusing to identify contaminated waste sites littered around the state as protest grows over the siting of...
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Ombudsman busts AFMA … Wilkie complaint upheld
Picture: Greenpeace Speakers included Paul O’Halloran, Andrew Wilkie, Julie Collins, and right, Dr Jonathan Nevill The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie,...
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Tasmanian Cronyism: the more things change, the more they remain the same
Pushed for a Royal Commission … JW Cheek: Picture Here We don’t hear the word “dummying” anymore, but in 1910 land dummying...
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Scale back: the corporate lessons of Tasmania’s forestry debacle. Forest carbon …
Bob Brown picture Tasmania’s forest industry is experiencing its worst downturn in a decade, prompting a much-needed restructuring. While analysts focus on...
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‘Cargo cult’ mentality is not an economic development policy
ABC pic I stayed out of the long-running debate over the proposed Gunns pulp mill in the Tamar Valley because, for most...
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And the first … shall be last
This comment was to be posted on this article here … It was the hot summer afternoon of my junior high school’s...
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Five diggers killed
Five Australian soldiers have been killed in two separate incidents in Afghanistan in the past 24 hours, marking one of Australia’s darkest...
