Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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907Input Side Insanity
The cost burden of a wood-based pulp mill has a much broader reach on the input side than the local pollution –...
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The Mauritius economic miracle
Suppose someone were to describe a small country that provided free education through university for all of its citizens, transportation for school...
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Vigil for marriage equality
TASMANIAN GAY AND LESBIAN RIGHTS GROUP Media Alert Tuesday March 29th 2011 SUPPORTERS OF MARRIAGE EQUALITY TO HOLD VIGIL TO COINCIDE WITH...
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The night I saved Ricky Ponting’s career
Ricky was flirting with disaster outside the very off-stump. The black eye had faded. But the fine line between career disaster and...
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Kevin Kiernan’s comment. Wilkie at the Press Club …
No-one should under-estimate the significance of this comment from Kevin Kiernan … it demonstrates profoundly a loss of faith of a bedrock...
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Mushroom time again
Coughing, sneezing, wheezing. I was at it for days, just as soon as that great black-brown mushroom smoke cloud reared its head...
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A great small business for sale …
This good, small honest business is for sale. A great small business with excellent goodwill is looking for some environmentally minded people...
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Are private forest growers “missing in action”?
No wonder the forest industry is in crisis. One of the groups who stand most to gain from a positive contribution to...
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Christmas Island asylum seekers desperate to escape hell
Imagine the following scenario: you are innocent of any crime, yet you are locked up behind rings of chain-link fences and razor...
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Farmers complain about rain, there’s too much
Yes, after 13 years of low rainfall events now the farming community is complaining about the higher levels of rainfall. Well farmers,...
