Tasmanian Times
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906Socially absurd … and economically backward
We touch history through the tips of our fingers. Today we can all run our fingers over the lives of people who...
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Leading Tasmanians defend Safe Schools program
Tasmanian leaders in education, anti-discrimination and child rights have defended a new school anti-bullying program. Earlier the year several religious figures including...
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Play …
When did you last let yourself play? Not sport or games or politics. I mean play like children: inventing, creating, making or...
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Epitaph to Forestry Tasmania
There is a reason for all of Forestry Tasmania’s huge debts; quite frankly it is due to directorship by a succession of...
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Four Cases …
A little bit mad; only a little bit guilty. This is Evan Whitton’s revised version of a piece on diminished responsibility which...
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Lambie calls for Pyne’s sacking over his latest Higher Education threat
Independent Senator for Tasmania Jacqui Lambie will ask that doctors release her early from Hospital so that she can be personally in...
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Moon rising over Saltwater River
Moon rising over Saltwater River, Tasmania, March 2015.
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Hobart health risked by cruise ships? Background Briefing’s shocking report
Three cruise ships dock in Hobart, as captured by ABC … as ominous clouds of woodsmoke creep toward the city … •...
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Vanuatu: The Cyclone Pam disaster … with link to where you can give …
Disaster management teams are preparing to make their way to many of Vanuatu’s remote communities which took a direct hit from Tropical...
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Remote Indigenous communities are vital for our fragile ecosystems
Amid the questioning of government support for remote Aboriginal communities and what Prime Minister Tony Abbott called the “lifestyle choices” of those...
