Current Affairs

After Afrîn: the Ottoman dreaming of Sultan Erdoğan

First published May 6 On March 18, Turkish troops supported by a 10,000-strong horde of Islamist militiamen stormed into the city of...

The Mercury … and energy

The Mercury – which bills itself as the Voice of Tasmania – seems to have left its tongue somewhere in NSW or...

The Talented Mr Michael Ferguson: Onward Christian Soldiers

First published May 3 In his election pamphlet Michael Ferguson made his usual claim for “Christian” values and moral “integrity” before the...

‘Cuts to Federal Environmental staff will see the extinction of Tasmanian species’

*Pic: Grey Goshawk. All Pics are ©Eric Woehler, BirdLife Tasmania. Wedge-tailed Eagle. Swift Parrot Black-browed Albatross The proposed cuts of 30% of...

Will the Honourable Snivelling Grub …

Budget 2018: Coalition touts $24.5bn infrastructure spend as pre-election sweetener

Treasurer also flags modest personal income tax cuts and return to surplus one year early The Turnbull government has confirmed an infrastructure...

Sue Hickey: ‘You are in the Liberal Party, not the Labor Party’

First published May 2 Will Hodgman’s look of shock in Parliament was stark proof that he had forgotten LBJ’s salty aphorism about...

Teen Challenge Tasmania’s #NotEvenOnce® … Not ever!

While fighting the flawed process which shoe-horned fundamentalist Christian organization Teen Challenge Tasmania (TCT) into the closed primary school in Meander, MARRA...

Mr Trump and the Nobel Prize …

*Cartoon: Martyn Turner, used with permission: https://www.facebook.com/martynturnercartoons/ . http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/martyn-turner

‘Mountain MayDay Sunday 6th May @11am, Cascade Gardens’

First published April 20 Writer Richard Flanagan will join former Greens Leader Bob Brown and Denison MP Andrew Wilkie as well as...