Tasmanian Times
Coroner & Legal
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2.5KASIC calls for tougher penalties for white collar crime
ASIC will call for tougher penalties for white collar crime in its latest Senate submission, due to be released this week. According...
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Tasmania: Brenton’s bitch. Entura’s ditch. Same-sex, same result … ?
• Get rid of Greens or quit, Labor rebel Brenton Best tells Premier Lara Giddings • Entura jobs cut amid downturn in...
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Law, morality and the legacy of HLA Hart
Rembrandt, Two old men disputing 1628, National Gallery of Victoria HLA Hart Evan Whitton, former editor of the National Times, is a...
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Now the Tassie gay marriage bill has been found to be constitutionally safe …
When the Same-Sex Marriage Bill was narrowly defeated in the Upper House last year the main concern of MLCs was the constitutionality...
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Antarctic marine reserve threatened by sunset clause. Vigil/Rally, Hobart, Monday
Talks to create the world’s two largest marine reserves in the Antarctic could be undermined by a last-ditch push for a “sunset...
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24 truth-defeating devices (3)
This is the 24th extract from Evan Whitton’s Our Corrupt Legal System, available free at netk.net.au/whittonhome.asp The story so far English common...
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The conservative – and quite bizarre – view that growing industrial hemp …
It’s not often we do this, but Tasmanian farmers take their hats off to two state Labor MPs, two Liberal MPs and...
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Australia: Climate laggard lashed. Al Gore responds to Tony …
Pic: Looking towards Blackheath from Katoomba; https://twitter.com/workmanalice • The Age: Clear link between climate change and bushfires: UN adviser warns Tony Abbott...
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Advocates call for Upper House to act on marriage law …
In the wake of same-sex marriage legislation in the ACT, Tasmanian marriage equality advocates have called on the state Upper House to...
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‘Illegal’ label lashed
• The Guardian: Scott Morrison defends decision to call asylum seekers ‘illegals’ Immigration Minister Scott Morrison says he is simply calling “a...
