Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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991Tasmania … Ripe for the Plucking
As the State Government pulls the rug from under Island magazine (On TT, HERE), comes this story from New York: With local...
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Why David Hicks must win
No, this is not about winning a literary competition; this paper has nothing to say about that controversy – it has to...
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Kidnapped in Iraq; attacked in Australia
Baghdad. Friday, 16 October 2004. Almost as soon as my vehicle left the front gates of the compound, I realised something was...
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With a rare touch of restraint the term tree-hugging was not used …
There is a journalist at the Examiner, whose role seems curiously restricted. He writes the odd book review, and a weekly column...
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Reflections from the vigil-site, Long Reach
REFLECTIONS: What brought me here? It’s a long story, you’d have to say. We are all part of it in different ways....
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Brown counters Abbott’s offer
The Greens are offering the Gillard government help to implement the most popular option on asylum seekers which is to process them...
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Systematically Biased Reporting
Although the spin is hard to detect for the average reader, New York Times reportage of Middle East affairs is perniciously biased....
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Sitting outside the Long Reach site … copping abuse, and encouragement …
Dear Readers, I’m sitting against a tree by the side of the East Tamar Highway – on the George Town Road. I’m...
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Forget democracy. It’s corporations that rule the west
It has been the same story from the brokers and analysts I’ve spoken to during the market plunges this week: stocks were...
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Australia: The Consequential Country
“The land down under” has always been a colloquialism dripping with inconsequentiality, and reaches back to a time when the tyranny of...
