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1.1KRupert’s back in town
On August 10 Rupert Murdoch, the Executive Chairman of News Corporation – the parent company of The Mercury – jetted back into...
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Mercury: The Fall … and why it matters
Graphs from Here Graeme Wood, make Rupe an offer he can’t refuse … And so Mercury – my home for 23 interesting...
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Increasingly, we can’t trust journalists to decipher finance
In the fallout of the 2008 global financial crisis, the financial media were criticised for failing to fulfil a watchdog role, for...
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Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not
Tasmanian Times published this report way back in August 29, 2011. At the request of a reader it is republished today …...
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NATION: Poor, Poor Joe …
A defamation battle between one of the nation’s most senior political figures and one of its oldest newspaper publishers has exposed one...
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Bob Ellis says he may have weeks to live after liver tests deliver ‘very bad’ news
The writer Bob Ellis has been diagnosed with aggressive liver cancer and says he may have just weeks to live. A prolific...
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Rupert Murdoch’s News UK shamed by failure to pay legal costs
Rupert Murdoch’s organisation had a moral duty to pay the legal costs for Sun reporter Anthony France. But it refused to do...
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A Fragment of Balmain History
Former Sydneysider, photojournalist, *Rob Walls recalls a fragment of Balmain history. At the end of April Rob will be setting off on...
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Six reasons Abbott’s peace deal on Q & A isn’t quite what it seems
Prime Minister Tony Abbott seems to have brokered some kind of peace deal with the ABC over his ban on frontbenchers appearing...
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Tasmanian Times & Anonymity of comments
It was recently raised on another thread (see comment below) that Tasmanian Times (TT) should prevent people posting comments under pseudonyms. TT...
