Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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908Let’s Ban Political Editorials by Out of Touch Editors
Is the editor of the Examiner, Martin Gilmour, giving up smoking? Or has he always been that grumpy? And reactionary? And anti-Green?...
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Terrorists, sex and violence: cowards ruled, heroes overruled
In this confronting and compelling two-part essay, contributing editor-at-large, Tess Lawrence, provokes the argument that the relationship between suicide bombers, sex and...
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Did defaulting rescue Argentina and could it work for Greece?
In 2001 Argentina announced it was going to restructure its international debt, thereby triggering the biggest default in history. Twelve months later...
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Red Zone Baghdad
My War in Iraq Colonel Marcus Fielding “I was there at the start and Marcus was there at the end. Because of...
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Bolt decision: ‘Irresponsible journalism illegal’? Think again
In paragraph 388 of his judgment in the Bolt matter yesterday, Justice Bromberg quotes a phrase from a Privy Council case. It...
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Bob McMahon: Protests to escalate if project continues
Sunday, September 25, 2011 By Susan Austin Rally against the pulp mill. For the past seven years, the community action group TAP...
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Sporting leaders must stand up for pokies reform. ‘Chilling’ pokies
The Tasmanian Greens today said that sporting industry leaders are disgracing themselves and betraying their fans with their efforts to block the...
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Greens flag legislation on casino pokies levy. Clubs threaten Wilkie. Eddie lashes ‘footy tax’
The Tasmanian Greens are planning to introduce legislation next month that would see casinos pay a proportion of their poker machine revenue...
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Letter from Cairo: the struggle for a free press
Now that Egypt is in revolution mode, Cairo is attracting more than its usual large share of artists, journalists, academics, analysts and...
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PM fiddles while apparatchiks plunder ALP empire
Julia Gillard has pretended to support reforming the Labor Party by supporting a series of measures that change nothing about a party...
