Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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973Joan Brown, Shell Necklace Maker
It shimmered. I don’t remember anything else about the exhibition in Hobart, but I was struck by the beauty of the shell...
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If only I could fly
Sometimes I have crazy dreams – things that I would see while I’m on the road. An exotic animal walking the boundary...
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Theatre of the World …
The nine year old boy was able to pronounce the exhibit wizard. As the mind of the child is still growing still...
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Push v Pull: The Morality of Offshore Processing
In the last fortnight two asylum seeker boats have sunk on their way to Australia, killing more than 90 people. These tragic...
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This is the way the world ends …
The Hollow Men (1925), a poem by T. S. Eliot (Wikipedia here) We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men...
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Truly stupefying …
NOTE TO READERS: The story below is not satire. Call it irony, a plea for a more compassionate society – in fact...
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Pokies: Plunder continues
POKIES LOSSES DOWN BUT PLUNDER CONTINUES Over $100-Million Gone Between Jan-May 2012 Kim Booth MP Greens Gaming Spokesperson Tuesday, 3 July 2012...
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What Mt Wellington really needs
• First published 2012-05-31 04:47 PM. Re-published today as push for a cable-car grows (Mercury: Pick a design for summit; Comments are...
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Lonny in trouble … again. Libs pledge to dredge
The Tamar River mudflats … There yet more trouble brewing in troubled Launceston, centred around our Royal Park. This latest push to...
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I knew it would be a great day …
I knew today (Tuesday, June 26) would be a great day. I motored away from the smoke shrouded reminder of winter that...
