Tasmanian Times
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798Environmentalists launch another bid to stop a Tarkine mine
Activist group Save the Tarkine has mounted a Federal Court challenge to a mine approval in Tasmania’s north-west. The group’s challenging the...
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The Billion Dollar Opportunity
A wonderful economic opportunity exists for Tasmania. It involves no contentious project, no negative environmental outcomes, no lengthy planning processes and could...
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MIS scams uncovered
Legendary bank robber Willie Sutton was a clear thinking sort of guy. When quizzed as to why he robbed banks, he replied...
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Poetry, without a shred of pity
Martin Flanagan It is customary to begin speeches such as this by saying something funny. I suppose I could tell you how...
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Death in Amsterdam
As Tasmania debates voluntary assisted dying law reform, Margaretta Pos tells a very personal story … One spring day in Hobart, I...
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Tasmanian markets in danger from noisy pro-GE lobby
The Tasmanian Greens today warned that Tasmanian primary producers who benefit from Tasmania’s GE moratorium were in serious danger of being drowned...
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Waste not, want not
Waste is a perennial problem. It is an inevitable component of all systems, from biological metabolism through to industrial plant. The efficient...
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24 truth-defeating devices
This is the 22nd extract from Evan Whitton’s Our Corrupt Legal System, available free at netk.net.au/whittonhome.asp . The story so far. English...
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Keith Dunstan and his place in the Australian sun
In time to avoid the grand final frenzy he famously deplored, Australia loses one of its great journalists, writers and voices —...
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Emergency Protest against Illegal Deportation to Place of Further Persecution
Photo by David Fedele of the aftermath of Operation Sunset Merona The West Papuan refugee community and supporters of refugee rights will...
