Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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1.0K2016: A very good year in the life of the HVC — now for the final clean-up
*Pic: Adriana Taylor, centre right back, and smiling Huon Valley residents … Huon Valley Guessing Games A fellow critic of Huon Valley...
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When hospitals make patients sick …
Long ago ‒ 150 years or more ‒ it was noticed that pregnant women whose children were delivered by doctors were much...
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Perish the pension …
*Pic: Pascal Maramis, Flickr At the turn of the year, my $117-a-week age pension disappears. I am not about to whinge that,...
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Conservation fiddles while the Kea goes extinct …
Protesting 1080 through Wellington’s streets Isn’t it just incredible that the people of New Zealand are threatened with deadly poison in their...
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Plastic Pollution and our Noxious Consumerism
All across the globe there is a silent killer. It invades our everyday lives, outlives us, and invariably threatens all marine life...
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The terrible, fatal lie …
*Pic: Father Rod Bower, Kelsang Dawa, Newcastle Archbishop Greg Thompson and Grand Mufti Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohammed as religious leaders join to...
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The whole damned thing …
*Pic: Flickr, David Blackwell: ‘Walking home one evening in 2074 Paul wondered about the scientific breakthrough reversing the effects of climate change...
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Sexual assaults at the Falls Festival …
In the aftermath of reported incidents of sexual assault on women, a cultural dialogue and action is desperately needed. First of all...
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E-cigarettes should be banned, not promoted by government
E-cigarettes are not safe. E-cigarettes containing nicotine are not legal in Australia. E-cigarettes without nicotine are legal, but many of them have...
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Letters to my grandchildren (21)
Dear Chilliwops, At the start of a new year I thought I would summarise some of the issues I have raised with...
