Opinion

After Afrîn: the Ottoman dreaming of Sultan Erdoğan

First published May 6 On March 18, Turkish troops supported by a 10,000-strong horde of Islamist militiamen stormed into the city of...

The Mercury … and energy

The Mercury – which bills itself as the Voice of Tasmania – seems to have left its tongue somewhere in NSW or...

The Talented Mr Michael Ferguson: Onward Christian Soldiers

First published May 3 In his election pamphlet Michael Ferguson made his usual claim for “Christian” values and moral “integrity” before the...

‘Cuts to Federal Environmental staff will see the extinction of Tasmanian species’

*Pic: Grey Goshawk. All Pics are ©Eric Woehler, BirdLife Tasmania. Wedge-tailed Eagle. Swift Parrot Black-browed Albatross The proposed cuts of 30% of...

‘Campaign Against the Cable Car Reaches Dizzying New Heights’

*Pics: Rob Blakers, https://www.robblakers.com/ . Simon Bischoff on a climbing platform at the Amphitheatre, Organ Pipes cliffs, kunanyi/Mt Wellington. Satire: Andrew James...

Climate Change – Teller told us so!

*Pic: Physicist Edward Teller pointing at a formula on a blackboard on 22 May 1968. Photograph: STF/AFP In 1959 Hungarian born Physicist...

Will the Honourable Snivelling Grub …

First Day … May …

*Pic: The striking iridescent blue of the Mycena interrupta Tarkine Fungi: Now is the moment to get amidst it all! Celebrate the...

Budget 2018: Coalition touts $24.5bn infrastructure spend as pre-election sweetener

Treasurer also flags modest personal income tax cuts and return to surplus one year early The Turnbull government has confirmed an infrastructure...

Sue Hickey: ‘You are in the Liberal Party, not the Labor Party’

First published May 2 Will Hodgman’s look of shock in Parliament was stark proof that he had forgotten LBJ’s salty aphorism about...