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856Abbott’s credibility crumbling
Senior Liberals have described plans for a possible deficit tax in the budget as “electoral suicide”. Some talked of a party-room revolt...
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The Gunns have fallen silent. Anchorage Capital profits at Tasmanians’ expense
The Gunns have finally fallen silent on Anzac Day in a dramatic conclusion to this long running saga. Friday’s Australian notes that...
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Chicanery and political deception of the highest order
The Hollow Men, by T.S. Eliot We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw....
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This is how empires collapse
This is how empires collapse: one complicit participant at a time. April 23, 2014 “ICH” – “Of Two Minds” – Before an...
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Historic rally in Tasmania’s Upper Florentine Valley
World Heritage Forests In Danger Almost 2000 people have rallied today in the Upper Florentine Valley to defend World Heritage listed forests....
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The Mass Mobilization of Populations
Image from Snoopman … which also has Lorde’s censored speech on corporatized totalitarianism : https://snoopman.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/lordegrammyspeech.pdf Shaping corporate totalitarianism out of democratic ideas...
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Nicholas of Cusa and the Instruction of Ignorance
On a slow boat journey from Constantinople to Venice in the early 15th century, scholar and papal diplomat Nicholas of Cusa set...
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Liz Smith – Why I’m standing for the Legislative Council as an independent
Attorney-General, Vanessa Goodwin, an MLC and member of the Liberal Party … Liz Smith wonders what (suspended-sentence) policy Ms Goodwin would support...
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As Tony Abbott puts the Budget together, he is being haunted by statements of campaigns past
PRIME Minister Tony Abbott’s own words are nagging him as he prepares for ruthless pruning in his first Budget. The night before...
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (7)
The “Respect the Mountain” forum ( here, here, and here ) at the Hobart Town Hall last month prompted Don Knowler to...
