Tasmanian Times
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990Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (44)
The bird of Christmas, the robin, perched on a white post on Pillinger Drive, singing its merry yuletide song. It wasn’t the...
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Where Have All the Cod Gone? The End of Capitalism …
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — IN November, regulators from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration shut down recreational and commercial cod fishing in the...
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Materialist success has come at a cost
Tired of obsessing over what happened in the economy yesterday? Well, just this once, let’s go to the opposite extreme and look...
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First Day of the Month … and Year …
Rob Walls: Sunset, December 31, 2014 Well … we’re officially shut down … but couldn’t resist posting these piccies from Isla and...
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Open Season on the Tarkine Coast
I first visited the southern section of the Tarkine coast, from the mouth of the Pieman River north to the Interview River,...
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STATE: TFGA supports fracking moratorium
*Pic: From the anti-fracking movie, Gasland The Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association (TFGA) has waded into the Tasmanian debate on fracking with...
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But wait … there’s more: TT’s Tasmanians of the Year
Good things come in Threes … no better exemplified than last night at The Hope and Anchor Tavern where TT knighted this...
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When is temporary really temporary?
Once again (15 December, 2014) Hobart City Council Aldermen have taken yet another leap of faith on a planning matter, and approved...
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (43)
The “Respect the Mountain” forum ( here, here, and here ) at the Hobart Town Hall earlier this year prompted Don Knowler...
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School ‘reform’ undermines intelligence
By a niggardly, narrow focus on the mechanics of illuminating children’s minds, we’re selling them and our nation short in terms of...
