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682Urgent Action for our coast – help support The Canal Estates Bill 2011
After 7 years, a rigorous and expensive taxpayer funded assessment that also cost the developer on the order of one million dollars,...
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It was never my intention to offend the people of Tasmania
Dear Mr Regan Thank you for your email regarding comments I made in regard to the GST distribution to the States (HERE*)...
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Australia’s National Park sounds good to me
The West Australian Premier (a Liberal, recently installed) lately made a now famous comment that Tasmania is the nation’s national park (On...
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Criminalising gay parenting
The Tasmanian Liberals want to decriminalise altruistic surrogacy for everyone except same-sex couples. Under their proposed amendments to State Government surrogacy reform,...
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And all the time I thought we were living in a democracy
The history of this “so called” Protection of Agricultural Land Policy certainly caused a deal of uneasiness when being debated in both...
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What happens when a rogue company is given too many grants
Over the past 20 years millions of dollars have been spent on propping up the Timber industry in Tasmania. Some sources put...
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Don’t take the ministries Nick (2)
Kevin Kiernan, a bedrock founder of environmentalism, first publicly raised a loss of faith of in Green political philosophy and direction in...
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Founding fathers turn on urban Greens
Two founding fathers of the Greens say the split between the old-school environmentalists and the new generation of ideologically driven urban activists...
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The claimed Tasmanian Fox Shooting that didn’t happen in Tasmania
In a recent Tasmanian Times article on foxes David Obendorf has asked me to comment on the dead fox found by Mr...
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Watch out for Captain Greenwash!
Watch out for Captain Greenwash. He may look like a hero, but sent through the full cycle, he comes out pale green....
