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788Spotted Handfish for Tasmanian animal emblem … ?
Matthew Groom (Minister for Environment, Parks and Heritage) reckons it would be a good idea to make the Tasmanian Devil the official...
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Dickens on our corrupt legal system
For those interested in the law, Sunday night is Bleak House. We fill a beaker of Armagnac, set fire to a long...
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Saudi Arabia’s history of hypocrisy we choose to ignore
On Thursday, a Saudi blogger will receive his second flogging for ‘insulting Islam’. Robert Fisk looks at a barbaric regime with a...
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The ad Doritos doesn’t want you to see!
Watch here
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Bob Brown: Wilderness degradation should lead to unique label being dropped
*Pic: Wilderness photographer Rob Blakers’ classic shot of the Upper Florentine Forests (?) Jet skis to churn up Bathurst Harbour Elder environmentalist...
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Wilderness – going, going, gone!
Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife are on the verge of releasing their draft WHA (World Heritage Area) management plan, and it seems the...
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Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought
As we’ve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has...
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It’s time to stop lighting fires
Bill Gammage’s popular book ‘The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia’ contains many fundamental flaws and represents ‘blind advocacy’ for...
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AMA welcomes decision to back down on changes to Medicare rebate
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) Tasmania has welcomed the announcement by the Federal Government to back down on the proposal to cut...
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Doctors versus Liberals (1)
No political party inspires such unity among doctors, consumers and health economists as the Liberal Party. Around the country, we are again...
