Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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956Love and fairness are not radical fashions
In response to Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, calling same-sex marriage a “fashion of the moment” and a “radical change”, marriage equality advocates...
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Libs’ plan to make hay while the sun shines
… The Opposition leader, Will Hodgman, says the Liberals would spend $16 million on the sector over four years. “We’ve got to...
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Misleading and defamatory Labor Party election material. PM refuses to intervene
I have today written to the Prime Minister regarding misleading and defamatory election material released by the Labor Party in Denison. Printed...
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Launceston … Sewerage systems can’t cope with more extreme weather
Clogged … the dredge top and close up of tampon strings, below Anyone flushing a toilet in urban Australia today does so...
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Muffled Voices
In 1914 – long before television, the internet and the 24 hour news cycle – Uruguayan writer José Enrique Rodó published an...
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Tasmanian Forests Disagreement Act 2013
Two Views of a Fork in the Road Tim Thorne’s reflection “La Cave d’Aristide”, was originally published in “The Best Australian Poems...
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Heritage in Hock
Parliament Fails Tasmanian Built Heritage The Parliament of Tasmania’s key measure to protect public ownership of, and public access to, much of...
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Party-political ads disguised as official notification?
I am attaching jpg files obtained from scanning Liberal Party electoral material that landed in our letter box this week. I wonder...
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It’s on: Rudd gets the Col shoulder as Murdoch telegraphs his punches
A little over two years ago I wrote in this column that at a gathering in the US of his most senior...
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Morality lost in a cloud of smoke
It is perhaps unsurprising that Kevin Rudd is “disgusted” by smoking. The Prime Minister’s revulsions over artworks, people-smuggling and now nicotine addiction...
