Tasmanian Times
Forestry
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1.9KGreens to move no confidence on basis of toxic legislation. NGOs warning. Defeated …
Black Flags, Parliament House, Lawns, Tuesday, January 28. Picture: Matt Newton, http://matthewnewton.com.au/Commercial/People/1/ The Tasmanian Greens today said that if Premier Lara Giddings...
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The Rule Of Law – Tasmanian Style
Picture: Bob Burton “The prerequisite for everything political is moral. Politics should be ethics put into practice.” Vaclav Havel. “The ends justify...
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The Pulp Mill Follies
This week the Tasmanian parliament will debate, and presumably pass, the Pulp Mill Assessment Amendment Bill 2014 – the so-called ‘doubts removal’...
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If the amendments get passed …
Just for any legally minded masochists amongst us, I have drafted a copy of the PMAA 2007 as it would appear if...
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The Dictatorship of Majority Government
Senator Christine Milne on Minority vs Majority Government in Tasmania … The Deal is done in the Back Room and deilvered in...
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Doubts removal legislation is really democracy removal legislation
Last week the State Government announced that it intended to introduce legislation to remove all doubts regarding the legal validity of the...
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An act of little more than foolishness
Dear Legislative Councillors, Tonight (Wed) I attended a meeting in Launceston, with over five hundred other concerned citizens, to bring us up...
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How Korda Mentha instructed Premier Giddings to act. The Legislation …
19 September 2013 The Hon Lara Giddings MP Premier of Tasmania Level 11, Executive Building, 15 Murray St, Hobart Tas 7000 Dear...
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MOFO Oh, Oh
We are truly blessed to be right here, right now. To borrow from a certain dead white male – if music be...
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Liquidators’ gravy train rolls along
TANYA Hamilton-Smith owed $28,000 to her boyfriend’s company when it went belly-up. The liquidator to this Adelaide retailer then spent half a...
