Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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811Tony’s Tropfest
No, it’s not a sidebar event to a well known film festival. Instead it is a damning indictment of Abbott’s two faced...
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Nick Xenophon: Security Risk !
An Australian senator on a fact-finding mission to Malaysia says he has been refused entry because authorities consider him a “security risk”....
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The aspirational Tasmanian: ready for the right kind of change …
Tasmania has developed a way of life, a mode of doing things, a demographic, a culture and associated economy that reproduces underachievement,...
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Will we Bite the Bullet and Buy the Rusich?
According to a report in the Mercury (here) the replica Viking ship Rusich is on the market and the mooted price is...
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Israel’s ‘Prisoner X’ was Australian Mossad agent, documentary claims
Like the fictional Man in the Iron Mask, Israel’s infamous “Prisoner X” was allegedly held in solitary confinement in conditions of such...
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Pulp Friction – Fact not Fiction
In 2009, at the height of a passionate public debate on the merits or otherwise of a giant pulp-mill proposed for the...
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South Vicmania? North Tastoria? Why merging three Australian states is a bad idea
Recent chatter about a potential administrative merger between Tasmania and Victoria and including South Australia looks like a solution in search of...
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No basket-case: Tasmania on the bumpy road to economic sustainability
Is Tasmania at a tipping point? Over the next two weeks The Conversation, in conjunction with Griffith REVIEW and the University of...
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Vandemonian Dreaming
Image: ‘Clydes Island’, an oil painting by Kim Peart, completed on Sunday 28th April 1996 in one of the old shops in...
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Top five regrets of the dying
A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of the dying, and among the top ones is ‘I wish I hadn’t worked...
