Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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737Real Change Requires People Not Policy
Why is it that we measure all the big issues in society but we never seem to fix them? Naplan was introduced...
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Tasmanian Election Fails to Deliver Real Solutions, Alliance Says
The Tasmanian election has concluded and codified a Liberal minority government, effectively reinstating what we already had prior to Dean Winters call...
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A Shaky Government’s Risky Bet with Taxpayer Money
From a taxpayer’s perspective, the decision by the Tasmanian government to provide financial support to Liberty Bell Bay, a manganese ore smelter...
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Confronting Racism – The Uniqueness and Unity of Suffering
The Report of the Special Envoy for Antisemitism is deeply troubling. It views history and the present from narrow points of view....
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Unseen Link – Australia’s Hand in Gaza Conflict
Inspired by the sentiment that “no man is an island,” we believe that events in the Middle East, while geographically distant, have...
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Greyhound Exit – A Masterclass in Political Inertia
And so, the curtain falls, not with a bang, but with the whimper of a government finally, begrudgingly, conceding the utterly undeniable....
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UTAS Leadership’s Decline – Call for Fresh Direction
UTAS Vice Chancellor Rufus Black finished his 5 year term in March 2023 but then accepted the invitation of his Council to...
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ABC Host’s Family Tie to Hydro Sparks Outrage
Edit update ABC Hobart were contacted for comment and an ABC spokesperson has responded as follows. Leon Compton is an experienced and...
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The Article Richard Flanagan Wrote and the Mercury Refused to Run
WHICH GOVERNMENT – OUR WORST OR OUR BEST? Richard Flanagan, 5 August 2025 Tasmania is faced with the strangest of choices: a...
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Marinus Link – A Billion Dollar Bet on Failure
Almost 20 years ago I advised the fund that bought Basslink from the (British) National Grid Company. NGC (and Macquarie) had run...
