Tasmanian Times
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1.2KQuestions, but no Answers, in Hobart
I wasn’t invited, so I watched online, and I had to wait until it was almost over to see the best bit...
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Three quarters of Australians back mandatory limits on poker machines
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has welcomed another in a long line of national polls showing overwhelming support for poker...
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Gazing wistfully at old magazines…
Now this isn’t about photography, though I guess it was driven by a nostalgia for the great picture magazines of the 1960s....
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Framing The Narrative: Murdoch v. Assange
I should be doing something else right now. As my wife frequently reminds me, I don’t get paid to write about WikiLeaks....
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Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual
In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets...
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Plantations up in biomass smoke
EXCLUSIVE: Great Southern Plantations receiver McGrathNicol is under attack over the foreign sell-off of 252,000ha of farm land. And the chief executive...
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The Harry Holgate Book or a Wikipedia indulgence … ?
Information about former Tasmanian Premier Harry Holgate is scarce. He was born in Maitland, New South Wales in 1933 and died of...
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Political parties violate our rights to privacy
WHAT a wonderful thing that the federal government, indeed politicians of all political stripes, are taking such an astute interest in citizens’...
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Tales of Megafauna Media: The Man in the Mac: A Life in Crime Writing
The veteran Guardian crime reporter looks back on the heyday of his trade in 50s and 60s Britain For me, it started...
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Commonwealth moves to seize Hicks royalties
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions has begun legal action to seize the proceeds of former Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks’ memoirs....
