Tasmanian Times
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1.5KFrom Green Warriors to Greenwashers
When Greenpeace emerged as an international organization in the 1970s, it embodied a spirit of courageous protest by activists who were willing...
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eBay Founder Commits $250m to New Media Venture with Glenn Greenwald
More shocks for dead-tree media Pierre Omidyar says decision to set up news organisation fuelled by ‘concern about press freedoms in the...
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Open letter to The Mercury: Make it stop!
Dear Boofhead-in-Chief, Last Saturday I received a non-personally-addressed copy of the Mercury. Tossed over my fence. FFS, we’ve just had a Federal...
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Keith Dunstan and his place in the Australian sun
In time to avoid the grand final frenzy he famously deplored, Australia loses one of its great journalists, writers and voices —...
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Copy that! Tony’s example helps Mercury fall, Sport …
There has been much railing against the inclusion of only one woman in Tony Abbott’s Coalition Cabinet. And it’s worth noting that...
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A new creative hub breathes life into old Mercury building
SOMETHING is rumbling inside the old Mercury building in Hobart’s Macquarie St. Behind its signature art deco exterior, the empty newsrooms and...
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Advocating for the jobless …
Advocating for the jobless. The Burnie daily, The Advocate, has launched a campaign to find and fill $25 million worth of jobs...
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Israel Grants First Golan Heights Oil Drilling licence To Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch
Israel has granted a U.S. company the first licence to explore for oil and gas in the occupied Golan Heights, John Reed...
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TT Tasmanian of the Year Award 2013
Tasmanian Asylum Seeker Support (TASS)!!! TASS has harnassed the powerful generosity and compassion that exists within so many Tasmanians and through this...
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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...
