Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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943Friday: Shame; Milne lashes Rudd’s Fix. Tuesday: Suicide and self harm attempts at Pontville
Suicide attempts have been confirmed amongst the children and teenagers in the Pontville Immigration Detention Centre near Hobart. Australia’s Children’s Commissioner Megan...
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One purchase, one vote. One life saved?
UNICEF Young Ambassador Emma Crane is a speaker at the Fairly Educated Conference currently taking place in Hobart, which is designed to...
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Ripe for the plucking
Remember when politicians and their bureaucrats patted us on the head and told us not to worry, that the lock-up of Tasmania’s...
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The Government should be trying to wind it up, not grow it.
A statement regarding increased cattle exports to Indonesia ( The World Today: Indonesia opens gates to more live cattle exports ) “I...
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Abbott’s Great Big Carbon Tax Lies – Part 1
Last month the Hobart night sky was pierced by a giant beam of light shining up high towards the stars, part of...
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Taxpayer-funded forests become a burning wreck. Logging halted
CHRIS UHLMANN, PRESENTER: It seemed like a good idea at the time: two and a half million acres of taxpayer-funded forests to...
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One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world …
This is a transcription of the speech that Malala Yousafzai gave to the United Nations on 12 July 2013, the date of...
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Rudd’s pulling power puts poll on knife edge
Kevin Rudd has turbocharged Labor’s vote, propelling it to equal favourite status for the election by eliminating virtually every advantage Tony Abbott...
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The Prejudice of the People
A new survey for the Royal Statistical Society and King’s College London shows public opinion is repeatedly off the mark on issues...
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The Final Acceleration – Just Waiting for the Great Disruption?
The world seems dominated by two loud and bizarrely inconsistent narratives. One narrative constantly assures us that things have never been so...
