Tasmanian Times
Coroner & Legal
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746He is the quintessential whistleblower
Today Bradley Manning, a whistleblower, was convicted by a military court at Fort Meade of 19 offences for supplying the press with...
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‘Greens lost in wilderness on toxics’
‘It is not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends that in the end hurts us the most’...
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‘Powerful doco shows justice gone feral’
I’ve just pre-viewed a chilling TV doco, Shadow of Doubt, about justice in Australia: a woman is serving 23 years in jail...
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Animal cruelty, Tasmania
Last Wednesday, at the Magistrates’ Court in Launceston, sentencing proposals were put to Magistrate Reg Marron by Prosecutor Harry Virs in the...
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The cartel: law as business
This is the16th extract from Evan Whitton’s Our Corrupt Legal System, available free at netk.net.au/whittonhome.asp. Whitton is a legal historian, a trade...
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Shadow of Doubt cast over grandmother’s 23 years’ sentence for murder
The Eve Ash documentary SHADOW OF DOUBT will have its world premiere at the Hobart State Cinema and on FoxtelCi on Wednesday...
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$1 bet limits: I’m already on board. The Greens Policy
I strongly support, and have long supported, $1 bet limits and $500 jackpot restrictions on poker machines. It was my preferred position...
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Lurch Beyond Brutopia. The Manus Whistleblower …
Back in November 2006 Kevin Rudd wrote an article for The Monthly titled Howard’s Brutopia, in which he contrasted his own “social...
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Dud DAFF report demonstrates need for animal welfare office. Farmer’s guilt
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has condemned the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry’s report into the 2012 Pakistan sheep...
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Mine’s impact on Tasmanian devil. Why is Shree Minerals a Protected Species?
Departmental advice tendered in evidence during Save the Tarkine’s successful Federal Court challenge to the Commonwealth approval of Shree Minerals’ Nelson Bay...
