Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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1.1KHow Chechens became key Daesh fighters
Your free-read from The Saturday Paper How did the Georgian-born Chechen Omar al-Shishani, killed in Iraq this month, come to be one...
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Nigel Scullion not interested in child abuse: Does that ring a Pell?
So, when Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion heard about child abuse happening in Northern Territory gaols, he says his interest wasn’t...
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Statement – Completion of Tasmanian Senate Count
*Pic: From Wikipedia HERE, where there is also a profile of Richard Colbeck Ed: … or Eric gets his way … It...
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Four Corners: Dylan Voller releases letter apologising for crimes, thanking community for support
Peter O’Brien @OBrienSolicitor. Dylan Voller has instructed us to release this letter … Dylan Voller, one of the teenage boys whose mistreatment...
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George Pell subject of Victoria Police investigation into multiple allegations of sexual abuse
*Pic from Australian Women’s Weekly HERE: George Pell denies he is ‘dangerous’ Ridicule … Controversial Cardinal George Pell portrait wins irreverent 2016...
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Will ‘conservative white males’ ever be prepared to act on evidence on tobacco control?
Tasmania still has the highest smoking rates of any state in Australia. Around 1400 Tasmanians have died from tobacco related diseases and...
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Confessions of an amateur political campaigner
In May and June this year I put aside my usual work and worked flat out unpaid organising a campaign for a...
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Hiding behind terrorism
The news lately has been unremittingly bad – one attack after another. Mass murder by truck, mass shootings with guns, killings with...
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Baby Boomers hijack the debate …
THE age of entitlement will not end if baby boomers, in or approaching retirement, keep hijacking public policy debate. With average superannuation...
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NZ: Zero Invasive Predators … and Scientists
A bunch of “scientists”, working under the acronym ZIP (Zero Invasive Predators), are not out to save any particular species, nor to...
