Tasmanian Times
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657Act, don’t react
“The time has come the walrus said, to talk of many things – of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages...
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Australian Greens to Submit Bass Strait Sea Highway Proposal to Parliamentary Budget Office
The Australian Greens recently met with a group proposing that Bass Strait should be officially classified as part of Australia’s National Highway...
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We want safe cycling!
Hundreds of bike riders are expected to turn out at 3pm this Sunday on the second Sandy Bay Road Family Fun Ride....
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Will we Bite the Bullet and Buy the Rusich?
According to a report in the Mercury (here) the replica Viking ship Rusich is on the market and the mooted price is...
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Israel’s ‘Prisoner X’ was Australian Mossad agent, documentary claims
Like the fictional Man in the Iron Mask, Israel’s infamous “Prisoner X” was allegedly held in solitary confinement in conditions of such...
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Federal Hotels: the turning point?
The closure of the West Coast Wilderness Railway will have a devastating effect on West Coast tourism operators, none more so than...
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Pulp Friction – Fact not Fiction
In 2009, at the height of a passionate public debate on the merits or otherwise of a giant pulp-mill proposed for the...
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South Vicmania? North Tastoria? Why merging three Australian states is a bad idea
Recent chatter about a potential administrative merger between Tasmania and Victoria and including South Australia looks like a solution in search of...
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No basket-case: Tasmania on the bumpy road to economic sustainability
Is Tasmania at a tipping point? Over the next two weeks The Conversation, in conjunction with Griffith REVIEW and the University of...
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Guitar wood supplier predicts sound future
Tasmanian tonewood merchant Robert MacMillan has been in the media lately telling a good news story about the forest industry – a...
