Tasmanian Times
History
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1.1KJournalism’s historic battle: safeguarding a liberal press
The Examiner once published Keats, Hazlitt, Byron, Shelley … and withstood numerous prosecutions by government … THE Launceston Examiner, where I got...
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Austral Reflections
In 1834, ten convicts stole the Frederick, the last ship to be built at the notorious prison at Sarah Island, on Tasmania’s...
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All about bums on toilet seats
If an organisation displays anal retentive characteristics, it is apt that one of its main preoccupations should be with public lavatories. Huon...
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Testosterone scars …
Quad bike testosterone scars south of Trial Harbour. photo Bob McMahon Yesterday on Tasmanian Times: Arthur-Pieman & 4WDs: Minister Wightman fails to...
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How Labor and FT ignored my pleas over the trashing of history
What it’s all about: Forestry Tasmania’s arrogant trashing of Aboriginal and settler history In Tasmanian T imes on Thursday, February 9, the...
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I must be confused about the date …
I MUST BE CONFUSED ABOUT THE DATE John Maddock I must be confused about the date. I thought that at this time...
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Why the role of our Head of State is important
Lisa Singh The balance of the world is shifting. Europe is on the brink of collapse, with austerity in countries across Western...
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Species dying out on Labor’s watch
The Tasmanian Greens today said Labor in Tasmania could realistically expect the ignominious honour of at least two significant species dying out...
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1792: Growing when D’Entrecasteaux explored the Huon
Photo: Ula Majewski Today, conservationists from the Huon Valley Environment Centre have released a sample of a celery top pine we believe...
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We know our place now …
Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur ‘was delighted with someone who could deliver such a thunderous declamation about the evils of alcohol …’ Launch speech,...
