Tasmanian Times
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869Is this how you feel?
*Pic: Thomas Cole, Course of Empire … Fear, anxiety and exasperation are some of the worrying feelings being expressed by Australia’s leading...
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More on nesting Peregrine Falcons in Tasmania … prepare to be amazed …
In 2013 the editor/moderator of Tas Times kindly posted several hundred still photos of the development of a brood of Peregrine falcons...
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Hobart Baroque: Be realistic, demand the impossible!
Recently there has been much discussion about the funding issues of the Baroque Festival in Hobart. I have followed this discussion over...
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Supermarket Monsters
The Nikitaras brothers’ corner store has a hallucinatory shine, like a set from a period movie. Staff in navy blue uniforms and...
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More Follies on the Capes
It seems that almost every month the 3 Capes project exposes another event of illogical blundering, bumbling bureaucracy and visionless political agendas....
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (26)
*Pic: Wikipedia’s picture of a pardalote from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striated_pardalote The “Respect the Mountain” forum ( here, here, and here ) at the...
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An Open Letter to Joe Hockey
We’re entitled … Smokin Joe and Matthias pre-Budget … Dear Joe Hockey, Back in 2012, when you said the age of entitlement...
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Media Release: Council may oppose Wellington Park Trust bid to extend pinnacle zone for cable car
Titile: Council set to put a submission to Wellington Park Trust to reject any pinnacle zone extension- potential serious blow for the...
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Tasmanian government challenged on seriously misleading denials …
As community concern rises over provisions to open 1.1 million ha of established reserves and rainforests to logging, the Tasmanian government has...
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State Governments can’t control the economy. There, I’ve said it …
*Pic: Peter Gutwein in Parliament, flanked by Premier Hodgman and Rene Hidding … ABC pic At the Federal level, there’s scope for...
