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Drugs: the ugly lottery

TASMANIANS should tell their politicians they don’t want debate over drug policy to turn into an ugly and destructive law and order...

Politically stage-managed disease

I believe the State Government was seriously spooked by the discovery of an infectious cancer in Tasmanian devils. When in 2000 Menna...

Taz-mania: the review

Taz-Mania: the disease Now showing … very slowly! It started with a world-class script that larger production houses would die for! If...

Bulldozer or greenwash?

PUNDITS are waxing and waning on whether Tasmania’s 2006 state election will be called within the next week. Pre-campaign Liberal billboards have...

The beekeepers’ hope

IMMEDIATELY to the Beekeepers publicity event last Sunday in the Southern Forest it became public knowledge through the media that the Minister...

The AIDS devil

Pulping promises

In announcing a $2.4 million payment to pulp mill proponent Gunns, the Federal Government has funded broken promises from both the Prime...

It takes some Cheek

WHILE Tasmanian Keith Bradshaw is in the news for getting the top job at the Marylebone Cricket Club in England, another Tasmanian...

Scoop!

Congratulations are in order for Tasmania’s leading `reasonably factual’ newspaper. Not content with winning the The Barra Award from Media Watch for...

A great actor

TASMANIAN actor Michael Siberry is in New York rehearsing for Spamelot — a wacky musical adaption of the hilarious cult film Monty...