Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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1.0KThe Rule Of Law – Tasmanian Style
Picture: Bob Burton “The prerequisite for everything political is moral. Politics should be ethics put into practice.” Vaclav Havel. “The ends justify...
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A Wave of Unreason
“A wave of unreason” is a phrase author Edgar Wallace used in a 1920s Gothic horror story, intriguingly entitled “The Black Abbott”....
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Big Coal’s annus horribilis
2013 was a bad, bad year for Big Coal. If the coal industry’s PR dream is for a stream of exuberant articles...
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Would you consider offering yourself as a candidate?
Week after week in Tasmanian Times, I read excellent and insightful comments in response to the many TT articles that document the...
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Barnett Government’s Shark Cull Program delivers first cruel and barbaric fatality …
In the early hours of yesterday morning the fisherman hired to perform Barnett’s dirty work of killing protected species, went out to...
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Why I am standing for the Palmer United Party
It takes a brave woman to nominate for politics at the best of times but to put your name forward for an...
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Pray As You Go
He’s a big fellow. Uniformed for instant ID as an Aurora field officer, he moves up my steps onto the balcony and...
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The Dictatorship of Majority Government
Senator Christine Milne on Minority vs Majority Government in Tasmania … The Deal is done in the Back Room and deilvered in...
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McKim on royalties – too little too late
Nick McKim’s recent attack on Labor’s decision to [i]favourably consider[/i] deferring royalty payments to Shree Minerals is indicative of just how tongue...
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A new Devil: Cost benefit analysis
Perhaps I am just becoming a peevish old man. I don’t think so because I view life as ‘pretty good’ and wake...
