Tasmanian Times
History
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PIRATES, POMPEY & PRAGMATISM – Or HOSTIS HUMANI GENERIS
Leonard Colquhoun Not quite as simple as that. Simply thumping the Somali pirates will give only a short-term respite, as the history...
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Sounds like the History Wars
Garry Stannus This discussion sounds like the history wars. Max as Keith Windshuttle, Justa as Henry Reynolds. And Jim Everett? I’m prejudiced...
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Armistice Day – the most egregious exclusion
Peter Henning Earlier on Tas Times: Armistice Day: The egregious exclusion of Tasmania’s military nurses Why is it, that among the many...
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1979: A Warning and a Prophesy for America
Brenda Rosser “Washington must realize that the dollar can no longer act as the sole reserve currency in the world. The dependence...
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Globalised banking 1944 – 1983
Brenda Rosser The following flow chart describing developments in the global banking and finance industry between 1944 and 1983 has been mostly...
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Armistice Day: The egregious exclusion of Tasmania’s military nurses
Peter Henning Inadvertently, I think, the supplement also revealed what we as a society have chosen not to memorialize in the past...
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How Tasmania’s Lady of the Lake was silenced
Kathy Marks The Independent. New evidence backs claims that pioneering Tasmanian eco-warrior Brenda Hean’s plane was sabotaged. Brenda Hean was an unlikely...
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Have we got rights for you
Leonard Colquhoun “Words, words, words, I’m so sick of words” sang Eliza Doolittle in a much more benign setting. No written charter,...
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We are still First Australians
Heidi Douglas Stale and stunted, everything we have must be rational, scientific and have concrete economic reasoning. But I can’t stay in...
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15 years. I’ve seen it. It’s a joke!
Garry Stannus 15 Years! In Liffey I’ve watched the bush be turned into World War I. I’ve watched it over more than...
