Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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889RHH: A tragedy on all fronts
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, said that he is disappointed and frustrated that the rebuild of the Royal Hobart Hospital,...
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Evil Was Only a Visitor
Written in the weeks after the tragedy … April 28, 1996: the staff at the Fox and Hounds are just a few...
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Shocking violations of live export rules
Pics: The sheep in Pakistan. Aircraft transport … many have died on aircraft because of a ventilation failure. As the Abbott government...
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This is how empires collapse
This is how empires collapse: one complicit participant at a time. April 23, 2014 “ICH” – “Of Two Minds” – Before an...
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Lest We Forget indeed!
Only 8 years before the ANZAC’s set off for Gallipoli, these Aboriginals were in Police Custody, 1906. Their crime was fighting against...
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Selling state assets is ideology rather than logic
Pic: State asset: Hydro’s Gordon dam Privatisation: Broader issues Privatising public assets is back on the agenda with Treasurer Hockey reigniting the...
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The Lives of Brian
For six years I sat within meters of the late Senator Brian Harradine. Along with a few Greens and One Nation, the...
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The Mass Mobilization of Populations
Image from Snoopman … which also has Lorde’s censored speech on corporatized totalitarianism : https://snoopman.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/lordegrammyspeech.pdf Shaping corporate totalitarianism out of democratic ideas...
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Much learning does not teach understanding
Polumathie noon ou didaskei. Heraclitus (DK B40) Much learning does not teach understanding, else it would have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras; and...
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Whither the Liberal Conscience?
Some observers would be surprised to see Senator George Brandis in conflict with leaders of ethnic and religious communities – including Greek,...
