Tasmanian Times
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979Harpoon ship stopped. Harpoon ship poised. Fleet disarray. Whales killed inside sanctuary. Brett …
Nisshin Maru leaves the Antarctic Treaty Zone. Pic: Eliza Muirhead / Sea Shepherd Australia • UPDATE, January 9, PM: Harpoon ship stopped!...
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Running Ghost Tours in Tasmania?
Extant, Extinct or Eradicated? Does Tasmania’s economy depend on maintaining the existence of two mythic (cryptic) creatures? Over the past 70 years...
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Code Fail
All about Isaac Asimov, Wikipedia, here Bouncing around the Web in the first week of January were snippets from a 1964 article...
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Evan’s last extract: How to get justice …
The story so far A racket is a criminal enterprise. The system in common law countries, England and its colonies, began as...
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When Justice loses its appeal
A murder conviction which eminent lawyers and legal experts say is quite possibly a gross miscarriage of justice has exposed serious deficiencies...
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Justification and excuse
Ideas matter; they shape the fate of individuals and the destiny of nations. Take John Howard’s alternative reason for the Iraq War...
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Abbott’s eco folly will cost us
HEARTACHE from the flooding of Lake Pedder in 1973 by a state government hell bent on development galvanised a global green movement...
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Climate change models underestimate likely temperature rise, report shows
Estelle Ross: Evening (cloud) reflections on the Tamar River … The Earth’s climate is far more sensitive to carbon dioxide emissions than...
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Christmas Times (11). New Year Times (12)
Top three pictures, *Rob Walls: http://robertwalls.wordpress.com/ … and what will the New Year bring? *Rob Walls’ mountaintop shot is brimming with expectation...
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A happy new year is unlikely …
Eye of the storm … Premier Giddings and financial advisers … The Libs’ strategy is equally facile … One lesson from the...
