Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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891Will 2017 Be the Year Democracy Dies?
Watching the news pan out around the globe it rather puts one in the mind of a song. Prophetic and lyrical, the...
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NATION: Turnbull’s Christmas message neither comfort nor joy …
While Australia anxiously awaits Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison’s ‘most Yuletide Economic Forecast Outlook, or MYEFO, due Monday, one in eight of us...
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The Red River – A mining legacy
The Queen River runs through the historic mining town of Queenstown on the scenic West Coast of Tasmania and is a wild...
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Saul Eslake’s Tasmania Report …
*Pic: Image of Saul Eslake from here Poorer, sicker, older, the least employed and at risk of falling further behind … That...
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The Truth about Forestry Tasmania … in its own words …
*Pic: Pete Godfrey’s pic of steep slope logging … Pete says: ‘Why Forestry Tasmania is subsidised to use cable logging to clearfell...
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Politicians and Wilderness – They just don’t get it!
What is it with Tasmanian politicians? All they can see is lines on maps delineating where our National Parks exist, and on...
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Ocean heat melting Totten Glacier from below …
Media Release, first published December 17 Australian research has confirmed that warm water flowing through a deep channel under East Antarctica’s largest...
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Foxes: A letter to Dr Vanessa Goodwin
Dr Vanessa Goodwin MLC Attorney General and Minister for Justice Department of Justice Trafalgar Building Level 14, 110 Collins St Hobart Tasmania...
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The parallel worlds of public hospitals and Peter Gutwein …
*Pic: of Peter Gutwein, from his website Pic: of Michael Ferguson from his Facebook page It should, by now, be no news...
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The nub of the central issue of modern times …
*Pic: Gage Skidmore, Flickr One of my interlocutors in these columns very perspicaciously pinpointed the nub of the central issue of modern...
