Tasmanian Times
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925That recognition factor
This is about recognition of notable characters who helped mould the rich human mosaic of Tasmania’s colonial history. The ABC recently screened...
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Accounting for Dummies—Lessons from the Forest Industry
The suggestion in the title is that accountants are smarter than the average. Most aren’t. Accounting is essentially about debits and credits,...
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The Rose
Here Australian World War 1 veteran Donald Ibbott of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade recites a poem entitled “The Rose”. Watch HERE
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Anzac Day…before the flag was hijacked
Back in the days before the Australian flag was hijacked by psuedo-patriots and hypocritical xenophobes, I, along with several other photographers, took...
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The Great Victorian Denial
The recent ABC documentary about William Buckley was strangely silent about this man’s many connections with Tasmania. The omission has not gone...
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They are not lying, just deluded
For my (considerable) sins, I was the first Head of Office for then Health Minister John White in the heady early days...
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Labor’s hatred of the Greens
Extract: … Both know that, for decades now, a deep distrust of the Greens has festered away in some of the Labor...
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A Lesson in History
I have recently been in Turkey on business visiting Miletus and Ephesus, both cities famous for their Greek and Roman ruins. This...
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A tribute to an early pioneer
With a history documented and dating back to the 15th century the Higgs family can stand proud of a heritage long recognised...
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We must fight free of Anzac, lest we forget our other stories
I HAVE been pondering and writing on the Myth of Anzac its origins, its meanings, its implications, its power for some considerable...
