Tasmanian Times
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838Legislative Council holds Tasmania back. SA seizes the day
The Tasmanian Greens said that the Legislative Council had held Tasmania back and condemned itself to the wrong side of history by...
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RSPCA in internal row crisis
Image here Once again, the Tasmanian branch of the RSPCA is in turmoil, the Hobart Mercury reported today (28.09.2012 here), having stood...
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Unsupportable Fox Baiting has no ‘Social Licence’
Community response to 1080 baiting on South Arm peninsula Despite the strong opposition from the South Arm community to the laying of...
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SSM: ‘The Bill is doomed’. Crikey runs the numbers. Croome: We back the backers
There is at present a bill before the Tasmanian Parliament, the “The Same-Sex Marriage Bill 2012”. (the Bill) It is due to...
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Driving pokies reform … it’s up to us!
Sometimes councils and governments are faced with having to make decisions not based on enough evidence. Then there are other situations where...
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Women’s place in 1963: why baby boomer women have no money
For anyone wondering why many older and baby boomer women are poor, less likely to have sufficient superannuation, lower paid jobs, and...
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Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner wrong to say same-sex marriage is a human right
Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner is wrong to say that same-sex marriage is a human right said Mr Guy Barnett, spokesperson for the Save...
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Speed limits as cash cow
Pic: Rob Walls: http://robertwalls.wordpress.com/ On my infrequent trips to Hobart I have noticed that there are now both marked and unmarked police...
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It’s not mob rule … it’s protecting Tasmania’s interests
Picture: Greenpeace THE public backlash against the super trawler is not a case of mob rule, writes Peter Whish-Wilson. TO paraphrase Oscar...
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Caught out
Cory Bernardi: Michelle Grattan, The Age: Bestiality claims unlikely victim A lawyer who has advised the Tasmanian Upper House that state same-sex...
