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977Terrorists, sex and violence: cowards ruled, heroes overruled
In this confronting and compelling two-part essay, contributing editor-at-large, Tess Lawrence, provokes the argument that the relationship between suicide bombers, sex and...
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Harvard’s Kindness Pledge
This year Harvard freshmen started what administrators hope will be a new tradition: they signed a pledge promising to uphold values tied...
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Get Arthur-Pieman tracks closure on track
The Tasmanian Greens today called for the Environment Minister to ensure that the recommendations made in the Parks and Wildlife Service’s Arthur...
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Brown condemns Japan’s blood money
The reported decision of Japan to spend $27 million of public money on killing whales in Antarctica this summer must rate as...
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Slash and burn in Tasmanian Polytechnic?
Hag has been told there are going to be big cuts in Tasmanian Polytechnic (and possibly mergers). It will affect all departments...
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Red Zone Baghdad
My War in Iraq Colonel Marcus Fielding “I was there at the start and Marcus was there at the end. Because of...
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Call for Moratorium on New Mines in Tasmania. ‘Shree’s deception makes them unfit’
TPEHN has today (Thurs) called on the Tasmanian Government to implement a Moratorium on all new mine exploration licences and new mine...
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Standoff as MLCs demand Gunns $34m compo advice
The Tasmanian Government is on a collision course with the Legislative Council after snubbing its ruling to release legal advice about a...
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George Town, The Mayor, Gunns … and memories of Robin Gray
This reminds me of the time then Premier Robin Gray spruiked the Wesley Vale pulp mill on North Broken Hill letterhead …...
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Classical George W. Bush technique. Is this really the best we can do?
Forestry Tasmania forest ecologist, Dr Simon Grove, has attempted to place those of us who object to broadacre clearfelling and burning of...
