Tasmanian Times
Coroner & Legal
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903Essendon besieged
The hounds have been baying at Essendon for months but it is still a surprise to see the confidence with which sports...
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Capricious and partisan – Is that how the Legislative Council wants to be seen?
In the otherwise commendable Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Act there is an odd little section which, if the Liberal Party and the Upper House...
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Asylum Seeker Myth Buster
*Picture: Christmas Island wreck, from ABC News online. Myth: Asylum seekers are illegal immigrants FACT: Asylum seekers are neither illegal nor are...
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Larceny by trick: tax evasion
This is the 19th extract from Evan Whitton’s Our Corrupt Legal System, available free at netk.net.au/whittonhome.asp. The story so far. Justice Russell...
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Former Gunns boss John Gay avoids jail for insider trading
The former chairman of the failed Tasmanian timber company Gunns has avoided jail for insider trading and has instead been fined $50,000....
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Greens compassionate refugee plan will save billions
The Australian Greens have released costing details of their election policy on asylum seekers which will save taxpayers $3.2 billion over the...
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Kill it, says Paul Harriss. Federal Labor’s ‘final betrayal’
Upper House MP Paul Harriss has tabled a motion in State Parliament to kill off the historic forest peace deal. Paul Harriss...
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Loosing the Dogs of Xenophobia
“Human beings in particular cannot be discarded. They remain in some way to haunt us.” (Christopher Koch, Out of Ireland, 1999) It’s...
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Tasports wastes public money over breach of process
Tasmanian Greens Member for Bass Kim Booth MP questioning of Minister David O’Byrne today about the marine pilot debacle has revealed that...
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Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years’ jail for WikiLeaks data breach
Bradley Manning has been sentenced to 35 years in jail for giving WikiLeaks files that formed the biggest breach of official secrets...
