Knowledge

The Picasso in all of us

HIS HONOUR THE BEAK: So, your client crashed the vehicle because he couldn’t tell which was the clutch, the brake or the...

The Integrity Wars

THERE seem to have been an awful lot of wars fought on the open plain of debate in this country over the...

Ms Wriedt’s mushrooms

POLITICIABS, bureaucrats and the commentariat should pay more attention to George Orwell. Look at his observation in Shooting an Elephant — Politics...

Jargon busted

MY attention was immediately ensnared yesterday, when on opening The Mercury there it was: a headline bold enough to sink the Titanic,...

Missing … Essentially!

TASMANIA featured prominently in the House of Representatives’ Question Time yesterday when the Member for Braddon Mark Baker rose to ask a...

Rubricitis

I really must protest very strongly at the uninformed and inane criticism of the Eduction Department’s intelligent and innovative Essential Learning curriculum....

Your say: Chemical spray

APVMA are proposing to use a modified Canadian model as their basic tool for aerial spraying above 3m. This will allow them...

Katrina: The blame game

Bay gone, Lang

Too many people

EACH year there are more than 76 million unwanted pregnancies worldwide. Many women have little access to family planning information, services and...