Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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2.0KHelen Burnet: Hobart Leading on Climate Change Action
Speech – Acting Lord Mayor Helen Burnet, 21 April 2023 speech to Earth Day – Uniting to Survive, Parliament Lawns, Hobart Acknowledgement of...
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Minister Ellis Barking up the Wrong Forest
Introduction The most popular emoji of 2022 was, according to Brandwatch, the laughing-crying emoji. Tasmania’s north-west newspaper, The Advocate, doesn’t let readers...
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New Stadium is a ‘Hospital Pass’
Listen to the voices of Truchanas and Dombrovskis and say no, Hobartians, and Tasmanians! We don’t need a billion-dollar stadium on Macquarie...
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Massaging the Marinus Message
The global energy sector is in a state of flux, with the pace of change faster than anything we’ve experienced since the...
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Once-Touted ‘Best Councils’ now Falling Stars
Latrobe and Kentish Councils were put up on a pedestal by the Local Government Review Board as the best way forward only...
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Protest and Persuasion
Posie Parker’s Let Women Speak event in Hobart has sparked a discussion about how best to respond to her brand of anti-trans...
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Debt, Deception, Deficits and Difficult Customers
The debt ratios of local councils in Tasmania have skyrocketed in the last few years. Along with this there has been a...
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What Price Freedom?
Today I caught a bus. So what’s unusual about that? you say, million so of people all around the world do it...
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Fergo the New Scomo, Drunk on Executive Power
By what executive power will Minister Michael Ferguson change the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) for Skylands ‘within 5 weeks’? Minister Ferguson wants...
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Turf War: What’s Really Behind Recent Attacks on Trans Tasmanians
Since 2020 Tasmania has suffered more organised opposition to the rights of trans and gender diverse people than other Australian states. Why...
