Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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850Australian Party a potential third force as Katter shows he is not quite Right
Bob Katter is often derided as being a mad raving right-winger; despite this there is no other politician in Australia so capable...
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989
Crises can be openings
The past several years have witnessed the spectacular unraveling of capitalism, or so it has appeared. Venerated investment banks have vanished overnight,...
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745
Invisible victims in Lebanon
Beirut, Lebanon – Lebanon is home to 1.2m foreign migrant workers out of which the domestic migrant worker (DMW) population is estimated...
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774
Heat on Abbott for conscience vote. Tasmania pushed to go it alone.
Watch HERE Rodney Croome, Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian rights Group: Tasmanian gay activists have welcomed today’s decision by the ALP to adopt...
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923
Self disgust is the real justice
Terry Martin (second left) Caught out then lie. The only defence is ignorance of age. But what about the age-old legal maxim...
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902
There’s something missing …
There (was) something missing as the summer cricket season (began last Thursday) at the Gabba. Peter Roebuck. His death creates a gap...
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779
It’s time
GetUp’s new video has “become our most-watched online video ever, and the fastest trending video in the world right now on YouTube!”...
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What kind of perverse economic reasoning is this? O’Byrne’s response
Premier Giddings, Health Minister Michelle O’Byrne A Position Statement on the Crisis In Tasmania’s Public Health Care System … … by Tasmanian...
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855
$18 million lost on pokies in October
The Tasmanian Greens said pokies losses increased to nearly $18-million during October, the same month that the Labor and Liberal parties sided...
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904
A deficit of leadership
This week’s decision by the Gillard government to ditch laws that discriminate between asylum-seekers coming to Australia by sea and those who...
