Sciences

Recherche: has the Government paid out Gunns?

That’s the rumour Hag heard last night. Worth asking the Premier isn’t it, girls and boys in the meedja? A payout figure...

Politically stage-managed disease

I believe the State Government was seriously spooked by the discovery of an infectious cancer in Tasmanian devils. When in 2000 Menna...

Taz-mania: the review

Taz-Mania: the disease Now showing … very slowly! It started with a world-class script that larger production houses would die for! If...

Bulldozer or greenwash?

PUNDITS are waxing and waning on whether Tasmania’s 2006 state election will be called within the next week. Pre-campaign Liberal billboards have...

The beekeepers’ hope

IMMEDIATELY to the Beekeepers publicity event last Sunday in the Southern Forest it became public knowledge through the media that the Minister...

The AIDS devil

Pulping promises

In announcing a $2.4 million payment to pulp mill proponent Gunns, the Federal Government has funded broken promises from both the Prime...

The joy

A beautiful article from the NY Times about Harper Lee, the writer of that 10,000,000 copies (and still counting) bestseller To Kill...

My journey to Recherche

THIS is a cruise of controversy, a shape shifting view from the water of the Tasmanian struggle between the public and the...