Tasmanian Times
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1.2KTall poppies: Yesteryear and today
Australians excel at cutting down tall poppies. Very few know that an Australian might have been the first Secretary-General of the newly-created...
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The King Hit …
In the Mercury (28/July/16) there is a story stating ‘Man Charged over Vic pub brawl’. It is at 10:55 am in the...
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Tasmanian Federal Liberal’s Bitter Harvest: Parts 1 & 2
With the AEC declaring the Senate results for Tasmania and the Northern Territory on Tuesday 27 July 2016, the loss of the...
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How Chechens became key Daesh fighters
Your free-read from The Saturday Paper How did the Georgian-born Chechen Omar al-Shishani, killed in Iraq this month, come to be one...
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George Pell subject of Victoria Police investigation into multiple allegations of sexual abuse
*Pic from Australian Women’s Weekly HERE: George Pell denies he is ‘dangerous’ Ridicule … Controversial Cardinal George Pell portrait wins irreverent 2016...
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Will ‘conservative white males’ ever be prepared to act on evidence on tobacco control?
Tasmania still has the highest smoking rates of any state in Australia. Around 1400 Tasmanians have died from tobacco related diseases and...
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Confessions of an amateur political campaigner
In May and June this year I put aside my usual work and worked flat out unpaid organising a campaign for a...
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Hiding behind terrorism
The news lately has been unremittingly bad – one attack after another. Mass murder by truck, mass shootings with guns, killings with...
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NZ: Zero Invasive Predators … and Scientists
A bunch of “scientists”, working under the acronym ZIP (Zero Invasive Predators), are not out to save any particular species, nor to...
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Huon Valley Guessing Games: The Plot Thickens
• Bob Hawkins in Comments: Good news from last night’s (July 27) meeting of the Huon Valley Council: Cr Smith’s motion squeaked...
