Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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971The massive immorality of mass immigration
First published April 19 Despite an overwhelming majority of Australians opposing mass immigration we continue to engorge our nation’s population like a...
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‘Richard Flanagan: ‘Our politics is a dreadful black comedy’ – press club speech in full’
*Pic: Richard Flanagan: ‘Since the marriage equality vote it’s clear that Australians are not the mean and pinched people we had been...
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‘Doctors alarmed by renewed Tarkine destruction … ‘
First published April 19 Tasmanian doctors have been alarmed to see escalated threats to biodiversity with renewed and seemingly accelerated destruction of...
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‘Big-name chefs back seafood entrepreneur’
First published April 17 This is an immensely complex case. In the interests of transparency it is presented here, as Mark Eather...
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Has TasWater breached the Law by opening the Emergency Gate Valve?
*Pic: Undermining backwash turbulence at toe of dam wall created by gate valve being opened … On Friday 13th April 2018, TasWater...
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Tarkine old-timers … Gone are the days of abundance!
*Pic: A 4.5 kg freshwater Crayfish caught in the Flowerdale River around 1985. – Photo credit unknown Tayatea the world’s largest crayfish...
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‘New Minister = Peacemaker?’
*Pic: Marine Protection Tasmania’s pic of Okehampton Bay … Candidate for the Legislative Council seat of Prosser Jim Playsted has released correspondence...
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NATION: Trump reaches for the Tomahawk while Turnbull’s rivals sharpen knives …
*Cartoons: Martyn Turner, used with permission: https://www.facebook.com/martynturnercartoons/ . http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/martyn-turner Mafia Don, as former FBI Director, James Comey designates Donald Trump in his...
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‘The truth hurts: why whistleblowers get such a hard time’
First published April 15 The truth hurts. And when you blow the whistle, people get upset. So says Martin Woods, an anti-money...
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Oh, to be so Rich …
*Pic: Flashback to 2016 … Floodwaters at Inveresk … First published April 14 Here in Tasmania we are about to spend more...
