Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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1.1KJust. Three. Words.
The Labor party’s answer to the Coalition’s three-word slogans in the 2016 Federal election was three words written on big banners: Jobs....
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Turnbull’s Lunatic Attack on Renewable Energy
South Australia just experienced one of the most ferocious storms of the last century, and instantaneously after this extreme weather event PM...
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We are the Life of the Stars
*Pic: Graphic prepared by Kim Peart in a virtual world with a poem by Kim ~ Star Sprite’s Song ~ writing as...
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The Second Lesson …
Hold on you missed the first one. No, that was just before Christmas when the Bass Strait cable went down with an...
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Women, men who identify as women, feminists and Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner
Do you know anyone who is either male or female? I mean, unambiguously male or female? You know – of the male...
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Eastern quolls edge closer to extinction – but it’s not too late to save them
Eastern quolls – small, fleet-footed and ferocious – are one of Australia’s few surviving marsupial predators1. They were once so common in...
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George Town Council and the Curious Case of the Arbitrary Highway Buffer Zone
‘Scenic management tourist road corridor’- Not exactly an exciting collection of words, but a section of the planning code that is of...
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Punishing offensive behaviour
While amendments to the Anti-Discrimination Act are being considered, it is worthwhile considering when we are entitled to use the law to...
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Whistleblowers Tasmania backs call for Parliamentary Inquiry …
Whistleblowers Tasmania has backed the call by Tessa Anne from the Women’s Liberation Front for a Parliamentary Inquiry into the conduct of...
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The Only Thing We Need To Cut Is Our Misguided Faith In Trickle-Down Economics
*Pic: Mike Licht, Flickr We can’t trust the winners to compensate the losers, says Peter Whish-Wilson In the 1890s, US economists first...
