Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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4.4KCan secret political donations be justified?
A striking feature of the controversy over political donations is the absence of debate. For despite a plethora of articles, documentaries and...
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Celebrate the foundation of an invaluable wild identity …
*Pic: Ted Mead’s pic of evening light over the Norfolk Range … Pic: Nicole Anderson’s shot today (Saturday) of Mt Norfolk, the...
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Feasibility of a second Tasmanian interconnector – Preliminary Report June 2016-08-23
*Pic: Lake Gordon from the summit of The Wedge, by Daniel Patman, Flickr The preliminary report to the Australian and Tasmanian governments...
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1080 and the contamination of water
*Pic: Clyde Graf Water contamination is of concern the world over currently; Tasmania has had its concerns as well with long lists...
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‘I am just so happy to be alive’, he said …
Many people in Afghanistan risked their lives and their families to help foreign journalists. But foreign correspondent John Martinkus says after the...
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Sex industry lobby group disrupts Survivor book launch
On Sunday 21 August, sex trade advocates tried to derail the launch, in Townsville, Queensland, of Prostitution Narritives, a recently published compilation...
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Susan Neill-Fraser faces her 8th year in Risdon prison
On Saturday August 20 Hobart grandmother Susan Neill-Fraser began her 8th year in Risdon prison. Still the haunting question remains to me...
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Launched! Physick … and a true Elder
Pete Hay … Book launches traditionally do two things. They celebrate the author who has been locked away in a place of...
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The threat posed to women’s rights …
Image from HERE The Women’s Liberation Front Southern Tasmania (WoLF Tas) has written to Tasmanian and Victorian MP’s warning them about the...
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NATION: a government drowning by numbers
Pic: From Greg Hunt’s Twitter feed, HERE A fistful of dollars at the ready, our PM stoops to help a beggar on...
