Tasmanian Times
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782US Senate paves the way for TPP Fast Track as …
… UN Human Rights experts demand release of TPP text and human rights impact study A procedural vote in the US Senate...
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Huon Valley Guessing Games: Light is in the air
ALMOST since the day I came to live in the Huon, just before GFC (global financial crisis) shockwaves rolled out from their...
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STATE: An Italian job?
Observations on the latest grand architectural vision for Hobart’s future, the Macquarie Point Masterplan concept ( HERE ), dubbed “Old ground, New...
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Tasmanian Conservation Trust facing extinction
The Tasmanian Conservation Trust is facing extinction unless $80,000 is raised to save it. The TCT, founded in 1968, was a key...
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Human rights and all that’s wrong with the Magna Carta
After a tireless round of celebrations for the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta we should now ask, in the spirit of...
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Tas Uni academic less than “abundantly clear” about Generation IV nuclear reactors
Academic Barry Brook began working at the University of Tasmania last year. He is a strident nuclear power supporter and is particularly...
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‘Spin’ – It’s no substitute for a positive response!
“Spin” has long since become an accepted currency of politics and, where once it might have fooled some of the people some...
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A British Genocide in Tasmania
Cover image shows a detail from John Glover’s Mount Wellington and Hobart Town from Kangaroo Point, 1834, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra...
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Come on Sue … spill the beans …
John Hawkins in Comments here, Underbelly: Paul Harriss; A Step Too Far?, Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 When I re-read this article –...
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How it feels to be caught in the headlights …
Don Knowler … and friends … I looked again at the program: “Mange management in wombats”; “Pasture management for growing kangaroos”; “Reptiles...
