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735Tarkine: State must act
Picture: Nicole Anderson The Tasmanian Greens said the continual refusal by Federal Minister Tony Burke to move a National Heritage Listing for...
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Obama: China reacts angrily. Watch Obama live
Picture, from HERE The first deployment of around 250 US Marines will be sent to the city of Darwin in Australia’s Northern...
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Reward: What happened to Bob Chappell?
Susan Neill-Fraser and Bob Chappell Bob Chappell disappeared under mysterious circumstances from the yacht ‘Four Winds’ sometime between the afternoon of January...
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Lest We Forget: the need to morally justify Afghanistan
On Remembrance Day last Friday many of us paused for a moment’s reflection on the dreadful human cost of military conflict. The...
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Parks and Wildlife Service a bit coy about the truth
The Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service were very agitated by the recent Iteration Again exhibition at the Taroona Shot Tower by ‘enfant...
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Observing Remembrance Day: a personal reflection
This morning – ‘at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month’ of this 11th year! – many of...
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Armistice Day: A Tasmanian Remembrance Story
Seventy years ago, in November 1941, an Australian battalion of 920 men stationed in Darwin was preparing to go on home leave,...
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Red Dog
Red Dog is a wonderfully delicious, quintessentially Australian film. It’s a funny, heart-warming story about a legendary dog, if one that presents...
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Wilderness man and paradise now long gone
Olegas Truchanas and daughter Rima at Lake Pedder in 1970. Picture: Courtesy of Melva Truchanas Source: Supplied IN Tasmania today to be...
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Money lenders not the only people who get rich at the expense of those who labour
Ann Pettifor, in her Search Foundation sponsored speaking tour of several Australian states in early September 2011, raised several vitally important matters...
