Tasmanian Times
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658Did You Vote For This Man?
There are two upcoming power battles in Australia. One pits Kevin Rudd against Tony Abbott. The second positions Rupert Murdoch and his...
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Help End Marijuana Prohibition branch launches in Tasmania
The National HEMP (Help End Marijuana Prohibition) Party takes this opportunity to announce the formation of a Tasmanian state Branch to campaign...
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After 35 Years in North Hobart – Zucco bows out for a new direction
In 1977 Marti Zucco a young enterprising Melbourne restaurateur opened the first Marti Zucco restaurant in the main North Hobart strip which...
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Australia not prepared for natural disasters
The Australian Greens are calling on Labor and Tony Abbott to acknowledge that Australia is unprepared for a significant increase in natural...
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Convict women’s lives brought into focus at Cascades Female Factory Historic Site
Some of the less well-known history of Tasmania’s convict past has been made more accessible with the opening of new conservation and...
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Farewell Dear Friends
A strange place is the World Wide Web. Many years ago, as a bored employee of a Hobart-based stockbroking firm, I started...
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Former Gunns boss John Gay pleads guilty to insider trading
The former head of collapsed Tasmanian timber giant Gunns, John Gay, has pleaded guilty to insider trading. Gay was due to stand...
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Getting moving with High-Speed Rail
The Greens have announced a plan to fast track the construction of high speed rail on the Eastern Sea board. Australian Greens...
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Legacy Thinking’s Tarkine mine triumph …
Butler’s latest Tarkine mine approval: another political ploy that ignores experts and long-term prosperity Australian Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson said today that...
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Peace hopes rise for West Papua
PAPUA New Guinea has now launched an initiative aimed at defusing the standoff over West Papua, raising hopes of a breakthrough in...
