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738Tasmania’s environmental laws leave plenty of room for improvement
A new EDO Tasmania report, Lifting the Standards: Opportunities to Improve Tasmania’s Environmental Laws, finds that Tasmania’s laws do not meet national...
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STATE: Dark Mofo artist Leon Ewing suggests high school students use drugs to expand creativity
High school students should be given drugs to fuel their creativity, an artist appearing at Hobart’s Dark Mofo festival says. Leon Ewing,...
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Off-road motorists’ continued use of Tarkine tracks makes farce of ban
*Pic: Ted Mead’s picture of Ordinance Point’s grand Aboriginal midden … Despite Parks and Wildlife installation of coastal fencing, many vehicles pushed...
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NATION: RET a shocking betrayal by the old parties …
• Independent Member for Denison Andrew Wilkie: The deal announced today to lower the Renewable Energy Target from 41,000 gigawatt hours to...
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STATE: John West would turn in his grave …
The Sunday Examiner (17th May) published a Hate Letter (above) aimed at former Australian Greens leader Senator Christine Milne and written by...
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NATION: Hockey’s incredible Budget Back-Flip
Joe Hockey’s second Budget set a new backflip benchmark even for the Abbott government which has elevated flip flops into a key...
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Martyn Turner visits Oz …
I wrote this piece for the Irish Times after a five week visit to Australia in 1999. Those who concur with the...
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Mayor Coad’s Letter to the Editor on local government reform …
Letter to Editor Local Government Reform As Mayor of the Huon Valley Council, I make it clear that my following comments do...
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NATION/STATE: Gonski; A once-in-a-generation opportunity …
Dr Ken Boston OA, a member of the Gonski Review Panel which looked into how Australian schools are funded, gave a keynote...
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We need to change thinking and direction. Our future demands it …
Kim Williams has reached a remarkable level of achievement. First as an learned man of music, film and broadcasting, and secondly through...
