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What Eric said to Saltshakers

IT IS a great honour for me to be your guest speaker this evening on the occasion of the inaugural annual dinner...

Libs canal plan shock

Hypocrisy at its peak

TREASURER Peter Costello heads off to Aceh next week to see how Australia’s relief funds are being used. It’s a non-event trip...

Tribute to a Tasmanian Tiger

Margaret Scott, literary icon of Tasmania, human rights activist, ABC television panellist with gently understated but devastating humour, died at the age...

Gentle, into that good night

I THINK it is the physical manifestations of growing old that first set the bells ringing. For example, there is the nose...

Hell hath no fury

Our webmaster has scoured the web for the latest links to the disaster that is unfolding as Hurrican Katrina — a category...

Wielangta woe

THE illegal logging of trees in an informal reserve in the Wielangta State Forest presents a unique challenge to Resource Minister Bryan...

Enough is enough!

THE Fabian Society was founded as a socialist society committed to gradual rather than revolutionary social reform. It took its name from...

Fury over devil crisis dealings