Tasmanian Times
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1.0KThe Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World
In the first Quarterly Essay for 2011, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern...
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Can we restore the rainforests?
Humans can recreate destroyed rainforests, but the question is whether they ever live up to the original. Credit: iStockphoto. As the world...
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Tasmanian Heritage Icon Gets Poked in the Eye
I am writing to express the Lighthouses of Australia Inc disapproval at the recent downgrading of the light at Eddystone Point by...
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Still Wild Still Threatened opposes Brighton Bypass in support of Tasmanian Aboriginal community
Today, Still Wild Still Threatened is calling on the Tasmanian Government to back down on its controversial Brighton Bypass plan and to...
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Do not mention the …
Imagine being told to review Stephen Spielberg’s Holocaust film Schindler’s Ark without using ‘Nazi’, ‘SS’, ‘Gestapo’, or ‘Third Reich’ – you’d wonder...
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Bypass legal bid fails
A Supreme Court challenge to heritage laws in a campaign to protect Aboriginal artefacts in the path of the Brighton bypass has...
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In Defence of Fort Direction. Defended, says Bushby
The threat by the Australian Defence Force to bulldoze part of Fort Direction hits the headlines and the public wonders which way...
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Save the Golden Fleece Inn … and they have
SAVE THE GOLDEN FLEECE INN, 1823 1 Victoria Esplanade, Bellerive, Tasmania Peter MacFie Jan 2011 One of the Eastern Shore’s earliest buildings...
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Where does Lara start … try at the top
I would rather have 10 extra Parliamentarians and a better democracy, than maintain a privileged family and 22 plus staff at Government...
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Morality, politics and asylum-seekers
Ask any parent or teacher what values they wish to pass on to their children and you’re likely to get a list...
