Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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818Interpol and Julian Assange’s red notice
As Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has a legal win (Supreme Court Grants Assange Right to Appeal, NYT HERE) , we consider the...
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Christopher Hitchens dies aged 62
British author, literary critic and journalist Christopher Hitchens has died in a Texas hospital, aged 62. Mr Hitchens, who wrote and spoke...
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The stupidity that has no end … but is it Gunns end?
‘Policies that fuel further protest’: Miranda Gibson and the Observer Tree, http://www.observertree.org Pic: Alan Lesheim Is there really no end to the...
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Falling forests. Ta Ann threats. Softwood fears
Pic: Mike Adams; taken alongside the Upper Florentine track early last year Ali Alishah, Still Wild, Still Threatened Yesterday Still Wild Still...
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What is really needed to address climate change?
I’ll start at the beginning. Or about 56 million years ago, when the dinosaurs had only recently been extinguished and mammals were...
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The Protester: Time Person of the Year 2011
Once upon a time, when major news events were chronicled strictly by professionals and printed on paper or transmitted through the air...
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Why Tasmania needs an independent inquiry into child sex abuse
July 2003 – Walter Tusyn was the first person to speak out publicly in Tasmania and expose the brutality, sexual and other...
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How Lennon, Rolley and Gordon flogged the softwood resource
I can still recall the bewielded looks on the faces of the Technical Foresters and our Field Supervisors when we had just...
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Why the mining boom should be slowed
This article in The Conversation today is a useful reply to Stephen Kirchner’s and to Peter McDonald’s argument that we need more...
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Good reason to worry about our democracy
There’s been much talk recently about a decline in the ”civility” of our public debate. This follows a long period of anxiety...
