Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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919Wilkie slams clubs over Salvos claims … as another $18m lost in Tasmania
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, today slammed the poker machine industry for resorting to threats and lies in its desperate...
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A pressing case for standing up to Rupert Murdoch’s bullying
The shameless actions of News Ltd are a threat to our democracy. NEWS Ltd owns 70 per cent of the circulation of...
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Asylum seekers arrive in Tasmania … as the screws turn on Gillard
The first group of asylum seekers have been moved from the Curtin Detention Centre in Western Australia to the country’s newest detention...
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Criminality and Cruelty: an open letter to Australian parliamentarians
As you are no doubt aware cruelty to animals is a marker of criminal psychopathology in individual perpetrators. Cultures which accept such...
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Gillard calls; Australian sorry
THE alarm bells had been ringing in Julia Gillard’s office for days, but they really went shrill after the first of the...
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Lies, promises and mandates
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott routinely denounces Prime Minister Julia Gillard as a liar. He does so with the tacit support, through failure...
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Public opinion and representative democracy
What role should public opinion play in the ultimate political resolution of such public policy debates as climate change, asylum-seekers, the war...
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Geoff’s Best Reads
Every fortnight on Tasmanian Times, widely-read Geoff Dickinson chooses Six of the past fortnight’s Best Reads. Talk about problems? Boys say why...
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Wealth creation: Surface appearance and reality
“…therefore as labour is a creator of use-value, is useful labour, it is a necessary condition, independent of all forms of society,...
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Myer tax hunt focus on Gray
COMPANIES in the tax havens of Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands have been hit with a tax bill of more than $738...
