Tasmanian Times
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1.9KMt Wellington winds would have shut cable car
Strong winds on kunanyi/Mt Wellington in southern Tasmania on Wednesday would have shut down the proposed Mt Wellington cable car. Bureau of...
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Abbott fiddles as the nation burns
When the News Corp National Economics Editor Jessica Irvine writes that “Australia is sleep walking its way toward economic demise”, readers should...
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Social media post ‘damaging and unprofessional’
Tasmanian gay rights advocates say a social media post from a youth worker and school chaplain that suggests he believes homosexuality is...
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Logging can ‘greatly increase’ fire severity for 50 years, researchers say
Logging practices can “greatly increase the severity of fires” in extreme weather conditions such as Black Saturday, Australian researchers have said. Researchers...
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In politics, keeping one’s word is sacrosanct
Honour alone could catapult Will Hodgman to a second term in 2018. By rejecting earlier this week an almighty big carrot offered...
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ROCC calls on Cascade Brewery to give ‘cable car land’ back to the city
On the back of today’s announcement by Cascade Brewery and the City of Hobart to commence a joint planning project to develop...
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How does the Renewable Energy Target affect your power bills?
The review of the Renewable Energy Target is due to be handed to the federal government any day now, yet amazingly there...
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Aiding and Abetzing
… So why would a government return to such a scheme? (Employment Minister Eric Abetz’s hardline welfare reforms). John Hewson (former Liberal...
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This is insane
I travelled on the Spirit in July and (whoooppeee) as a result I’m now going to get a $3 rebate cheque in...
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (23)
The “Respect the Mountain” forum ( here, here, and here ) at the Hobart Town Hall earlier this year prompted Don Knowler...
