Tasmanian Times
Coroner & Legal
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1.1KThe Question of the Royal Derwent Hospital … as then-Minister bids for comeback
The real cost and loss to the Tasmanian Taxpayer: $100,000,000 and rising … ? For the sale of the State’s largest asset,...
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Reason and unreason on same-sex marriage
On September 19th, the day on which the same-sex marriage bill failed in the federal Parliament, Liberal front bencher Cory Bernardi was...
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When will the mythologies stop? The Final Speech of Judy Moylan
… I should like to close this farewell speech on an interrogative note. As one leaves the stage of active intervention, there...
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Whistleblower Snowden escapes arrest in Hong Kong thanks to US errors
Edward Snowden heads for Ecuador after flight to Russia leaves authorities in various countries amazed and infuriated … Edward Snowden was five...
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Bonaparte reforms inquisitorial system
This is the 11h extract from Our Corrupt Legal System: Why Everyone Is A Victim (Except Rich Criminals) by legal historian Evan...
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Greenberry inquiry must be transparent and protect witnesses
This week’s inquiry by the Parliamentary Standing Committee of Public Accounts into the resignation of Tasmania’s former prison boss Barry Greenberry must...
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Tasmanian forestry contractors using loophole to continue work after being paid to leave industry
A Senate inquiry has heard extraordinary allegations that Tasmanian forestry contractors who were paid by the Government to leave the industry are...
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US fatally persists with common law
This is the 10th extract from Our Corrupt Legal System: Why Everyone Is A Victim (Except Rich Criminals) by legal historian Evan...
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The Protest against Ta Ann
Today activists are facing court over a Ta Ann timber mill protest which was organized in solidarity with the indigenous people of...
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A health issue, not a criminal one. MLCs delay bill
Who you gonna trust? Mythbusters! Tasmania’s eighty-nine year old Criminal Code Act currently contains sanctions of up to 21 years’ jail for...
