Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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1.2KThe Secret Life of Trees …
Review of … The Hidden Life of Trees By Peter Wohlleben, 2015 Translation from German by Jane Billinghurst, 2016 Publisher Black Inc....
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Digital economy is our fifth pillar …
“The internet is a telephone system that’s gotten uppity” Clifford Stoll. In that one phrase, US-based author and tech commentator Clifford Stoll,...
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How political donations distort democracy
*Pic: Federal Parliament, Canberra. Both pics from parliamentary websites … State Parliament’s House of Assembly … Recent revelations that a Labor frontbencher...
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The sparrows …
Like the quolls living under our house, the sparrows had to go. They were starting up before dawn, while we were still...
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How low can Huon’s council go?
First published September 14 Huon Valley Guessing Games The bad news from the Deep South is that the secretive Huon Valley Council...
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Shooting the messenger … a subjective analysis of a new millennium Tasmanian inquest
Simon Nicholson SC Caroline Graves TT has finally been able to locate a picture of Coroner Simon Cooper … It’s in this...
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Handouts to transnationals while hospitals in crisis …
Premier Hodgman’s recent offer of $25 million to Vedanta’s Copper Mines of Tasmania adds to the growing list of unethical transnational companies...
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Dastyari-bashing a risky gambit for Turnbull
“Back home Bill Shorten is standing up for Sam Dastyari’s right to take from a company associated with a foreign government.”– M....
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Restoring the numbers to Parliament …
Good morning extended Green tribe! It’s lovely to see your faces and to personally thank you for travelling from wherever you came...
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The Goose and the Gander … Dastyari and Harriss
*Pic: Sarawak Report, HERE: Tasmanian Independent MP Paul Harriss hob-nobs while ‘on holiday’ in Sarawak with corrupt dictator Taib Mahmud’s two top...
