Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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951Money lenders not the only people who get rich at the expense of those who labour
Ann Pettifor, in her Search Foundation sponsored speaking tour of several Australian states in early September 2011, raised several vitally important matters...
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Cassy O’Connor: A view from inside and outside the tent, so to speak …
There are times when something you read or hear provokes a near visceral response, a heat swell in the chest that needs...
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Ignoring gen Y while the world sleepwalks to catastrophe
Fiona Heinrichs, who studies business administration at Macquarie University in Sydney, feels that her generation is largely ignored and not given a...
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Believing everything… knowing very little
The Tasmanian Fox Program has relied on exaggeration, mis-interpretation and fabrication to publicly declare that Tasmania had a wild fox population. ‘The...
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Where is the balance?
I take strong exception to this biased story: HERE: Cycling healthy or risky? Watch it and see for yourself! Where is the...
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Why euphemism is integral to modern warfare
The arms trade, and the UK’s role within it, relies on business-speak and foggy language, writes Will Self. One of my favourite...
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Greens take a right step in Labor waltz
For years there has been discussion around the Labor party losing its core social democratic focus and shifting to third way politics....
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Seven years and counting…
It was early 2005 when Bob Gordon sat in the dining room where I lived in Kayena, an idyllic locale just a...
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Dear James Packer: What about the dead Crown pokies player … ?
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, is disappointed James Packer only told half the story about pokies during his speech to...
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SIEV X: It’s time for a Royal Commission
It’s time for the truth to allay, or confirm, our fears about SIEV X It’s 10 years since the SIEV X disaster...
