Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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1.1K2017: Blast from the past
*Pic: Treasurer Peter Gutwein In February, 2017, the Department of the Premier received an updated Conservation Management Plan for the Treasury Buildings...
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Tarkine Rivers Run Wild and Free
*Pic: The Rapid River in a benign mood after rain. Pic – Ted Mead The Grand Lower Pieman is one of Tasmania’s...
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Rosny Hill: Symptom of a broken system …
First published July 19 After an hour or so of Clarence City Council getting a resounding hammering, I almost began to feel...
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‘Walls of Jerusalem face threat of Biblical Proportions’
*Pic: Image from here Tasmanian anglers are looking to the Federal Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg to protect the Walls of Jerusalem National...
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‘Deals behind deals?’
*Pic: Aerial view of the proposed site … Pic: Vica Bayley There seem to be discrepancies between what Will Hodgman and Southwood...
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Tasmania, the GST and Peter Pan economics
*Pic: The buck stops here … Peter Gutwein, Treasurer, and Will Hodgman, Premier, spruik the 2016 Budget … In the Peter Pan...
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‘Loggers ask Federal Government for more millions – Conservationists outraged’
*Pic: a clearfell by Matt Newton, http://www.matthewnewton.com.au/ Save the Tarkine and Bob Brown Foundation are outraged that Australia’s Forest Products Association (AFPA)...
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Poker machines – a time for change?
I was recently asked to provide a 550 word article on any topic for the Advocate newspaper. Whilst, I have publically stated...
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‘Badger cull operation cost taxpayers £76,000 per animal’
An operation to reduce the spread of tuberculosis in cattle cost £76,000 for each badger killed … (Leo Schofield: It amounts to...
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NATION: Who is the real baby, Trump or Turnbull?
*Pic: by Jan Sobiesk on Twitter of the Trump baby balloon … First published July 16 Who’s the real baby here? A...
