Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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1.7KThe Glen Esk Road Fox
One morning at 8.30a.m. A road gang travelled very slowly along Glen Esk Road (at the Conara Main Road end) whilst working...
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Great toilet tour
Around 2.5 billion people around the world live without adequate access to sanitation and 884 million people have no access to safe...
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‘The forestry worker, the most genetically pure being …’
The protest earlier this week which triggered the editorial The recent intrusion into the Ta Ann facility is a harsh reminder of...
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RSPCA: Dismiss the board
Animal advocates have welcomed the news that a Public Accounts Committee is to investigate the financial position of RSPCA Tasmania, but believe...
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Simply locking up forests is a recipe for disaster
When you reduce the land use issues facing Tasmania to their basic arguments, a single message emerges: we must manage our landscape...
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Embattled Abbott Thirty-Six Below The Wave
Summary and extracts 1. Polling figures released by two pollsters on Monday show Tony Abbott with the worst personal ratings of his...
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Remembrance, Memory and Silence: Forgetting a Larrikin Tasmanian Digger
Corporal J.H. “Dummy” Armstrong at Adelaide River, Northern Territory, 1941, just before going to Timor with the 2/40 Battalion. (Photo courtesy Sue...
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Lefties! throw off your tired affection to Microsoft or Apple!
I am often disappointed and bemused by the use of propriety software by members of the ‘progressive’ community. In a world of...
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The hero at the heart of the Royal Commission
Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox – the lifetime copper whose revelations finally triggered PM Julia Gillard’s decision to launch a Royal Commission...
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The suppression of our animality … and its terrible consequences. The Royal Commission
A senior serving police officer, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox, claims the Catholic church covered up crimes of paedophile priests, silenced investigations...
