Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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935Forestry Roundtable – Working for the Man
“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates and men decay.” Oliver Goldsmith, 1770 The background to this...
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Laws that give corporations power over people
A comment on Tasmanian Times regarding a recently published article, in which I suggested the need for a campaign to rescind the...
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The media is not there to help. It does not feel your pain
The coverage, as they say, is ongoing. No one doubts for a moment that the Christchurch earthquake is a saddening, confronting thing,...
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Acting on ongoing social problems in the Bridgewater, Gagebrook and Herdsman Cove
Greens Gain Support to Develop Strategy to Improve Services The Tasmanian Greens today announced progress in establishing tripartite support to respond to...
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Bright, amongst the gloom …
Amidst Tasmania’s economic gloom and doom a small bright spot… Australian Marriage Equality has published a map showing what legal recognition there...
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Bypass legal bid fails
A Supreme Court challenge to heritage laws in a campaign to protect Aboriginal artefacts in the path of the Brighton bypass has...
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Julian Assange attacks ‘rubber-stamp’ warrant as he loses extradition battle
The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault. Assange will appeal,...
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Trade fees are just another tax grab
THE State Government claims that a 1200 per cent increase in our registration fees will protect the consumers from dodgy operators. Under...
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No grubby fingerprints on pokies reform
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has ruled out the use of fingerprints or other biometric data in the national mandatory...
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Police mistakes in failed prosecution
A review into the failed prosecution of a former Hobart chief executive has revealed mistakes were made by investigating police. It has...
