Tasmanian Times
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1.1KRoss Bridge Festival
In early 2016 Mr Kim Peart and Dr Jennifer Bolton applied for the Ross Bridge to be included on the National Heritage...
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‘Premier Must Explain Why Liberals are Taking Chinese Money’
A report in The Australian newspaper today reveals the Tasmanian Liberals accepted $30,000 of Chinese-linked money on 30 May last year. The...
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Smaller parliament rips us all off
THE introduction of weakened, cut-price democracy in Tasmania nearly 20 years ago has left the State with seriously diminished government. The failure...
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First Day … October
A celebration of the first day of October … Morrison’s Strahan Sawmill workbench Exposed banded sediments Lake Pedder south Eroded rock formations...
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‘Fragrance highrise a backdrop to community concerns over development laws’
First published September 29 A weakening of planning laws and community engagement, undemocratic ‘major project’ legislation and a taxpayer funded PR campaign...
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A sad day for pyjama manufacturers …
*Image: Flickr, Michael R Perry, Pinball Machine Art It is a sad day for pyjama manufacturers worldwide with the untimely death of...
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Southern Outlet: Sleep Disturbance from Trucks at Night
*Pic: Southern Outlet. Wikimedia Commons First published September 27 Residents living adjacent Hobart’s Southern Outlet recently gathered to express concerns about increasing...
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Preparing to live sustainably alongside increasing natural risks
The past few weeks have been a grim reminder that natural disasters know no borders. They can strike countries at opposite ends...
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‘TasWater takeover bad policy based on scare tactics’
THE State Government’s attempt to take over TasWater is bad policy based on scare tactics and misinformation. Brighton Mayor Tony Foster told...
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Same sex marriage … as if you haven’t read or heard enough already
‘Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one’ – Inspector Harry Callahan (Dirty Harry), The Dead Pool, 1988. First published September 26 And...
