Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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1.2KNATION: Turnbull snatches defeat from the jaws of victory
*Pic: Flickr … Half a PM: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull delivers the key-note address to kick off the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue...
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‘Victorian Premier advised to ignore Crown licence renewal’
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has advised the Victorian Premier to set aside the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor...
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Silencing and Censorship in the Trans Rights debate
*Pic: LinkdIn of Saffire Grant Meredith Nash Adrienne Morton Robin Banks Leica Wagner The transgender debate is increasingly characterised by no-platforming, withdrawal...
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‘The world is being undone before us. If we do not reimagine Australia, we will be undone too’
*Pic: The moment Richard Flanagan won the 2014 Booker prize … Read all about it HERE and HERE In the full transcript...
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Tasmanian devil cancer: human intervention the likely cause … ?
*Pic: Christo Baars First published August 3 The Tasmanian devil cancer, DFTD (devil facial tumour disease), is one of a growing number...
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The light-lipped Brendan Nelson …
*Pic: Image from here First published August 2 Yesterday Senator Peter Whish-Wilson posted 10 interesting questions for Brendan Nelson – that I...
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China’s military take climate-change offensive
*Pic: China’s military exchange their guns for shovels An Industrial precinct in China – Pic Oilprice.com Smog pollution in China’s Tianjin –...
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‘It’s Time for Light Rail …’
160 people packed into Town Hall last night for a lively Q&A debate on Hobart’s future and its transport systems. Tasmanian Minister...
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Dear Sally McManus and loyal comrades …
Spirit of Tasmania stevedore (46yo father of three) Torren McMaster, became known as an ‘Involuntary’ whistleblower after reporting to his employer QUBE,...
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On a break from Sydney …
Like so many of our other Airbnb guests, Sarah and Kevin look like just other middle-aged couple having a break. I imagined...
