Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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795New push for Tassie pokies trial
MALCOLM TURNBULL RAISES STAKES ON POKIES REFORM NATIONALLY Not Too Late for State Pokies Pre-Commitment Trial The Tasmanian Greens today increased the...
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Reward: What happened to Bob Chappell?
Susan Neill-Fraser and Bob Chappell Bob Chappell disappeared under mysterious circumstances from the yacht ‘Four Winds’ sometime between the afternoon of January...
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Gillard lines up fights on uranium, gay marriage as her star rises
Acting Liberal Leader Julie Bishop linked the prime minister’s stance on gay marriage with her decision to reverse the ALP’s ban on...
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Lest We Forget: the need to morally justify Afghanistan
On Remembrance Day last Friday many of us paused for a moment’s reflection on the dreadful human cost of military conflict. The...
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The horror, the terror, the hurt and the pain, their guilt …
Image: HERE We’ve made heroes of the men of Gallipoli. We have made much of the spirit that symbolises them. They didn’t...
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Observing Remembrance Day: a personal reflection
This morning – ‘at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month’ of this 11th year! – many of...
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The best way to push bad policy is to wrap it in a ‘security’ blanket
These days, the surest way to gain acceptance for policy proposals that former Treasury Secretary Ken Henry might have called “frankly, bad”...
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A woman’s opinion is the mini-skirt of the internet
You come to expect it, as a woman writer, particularly if you’re political. You come to expect the vitriol, the insults, the...
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Roundtable Creation Myth Has No Vision Splendid
The Crikey Mayne man certainly created a ruckus last week with his support for the Tamar Valley pulp mill (HERE), and it...
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Please don’t call them Leavers’ Dinners
The year is drawing to a close and so over the next few weeks 15- and 16-year olds at Tasmania’s State high...
