Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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807The Media and 9/11: How We Did
On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, journalists are spewing forth endless retrospectives — asking people to recall “where were you when,” interviewing...
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Is national heritage a sham?
In its short existence National Heritage listing has failed to save cattle trampling the delicate plant life of Victoria’s Alpine National Park....
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Selling West Papua to buy Peace with Indonesia ~ Realpolitik or Terrorism?
On the 10th anniversary of the horrific acts of terrorism in New York and Washington, we may wonder if the 1962 act...
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Epitaph for Another September 11
That September 11, that lethal Tuesday morning, I awoke with dread to the sound of planes flying above my house. When, an...
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Health chief cash outrage
TAXPAYERS will pay salaries equivalent to three Royal Hobart Hospital CEOs as the State Government recruits the hospital’s 10th chief in less...
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Why David Foster backs gay marriage
WORLD champion axeman David Foster may not be a likely poster boy for gay rights. However, these days the prominent North-West Tasmanian...
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Why Political Coverage is Broken
My keynote address at New News 2011, part of the Melbourne Writers Festival, co-sponsored by the Public Interest Journalism Foundation at Swinburne...
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Into the Abyss. IGA secret agenda, says TFGA
Lara Giddings’ cards are now all on the table. Having proven her Government is incapable of managing an economy, there’s now growing...
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This has got to stop
ATTENTION: 1 It has been established that The Pulp Mill Permit expired on the 30th of August because there had not been...
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Window to Togatus (7): Go Forth Wharfie, Punch Someone
Fancy an altercation; try a visit to the Hobart Wharf on any given Saturday night. From first settlement in 1804 violence has...
