Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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1.0KDear Rebecca …
• Dear Ms White, In this election year, I am hoping that you and your colleagues will help those among our most...
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The Terrible Burden of the Responsible Adult …
Many different people and groups have contributed much to the anti-pokies campaign over the last few years and I hope that they...
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‘Tassie’s ‘whitefella’ community says ‘not in my name Will Hodgman’’
• Hodgman’s Tarkine tracks betrays reconciliation on behalf of all Tasmanians • Sequel to ground-breaking palawa kani election ad released with both...
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In the Pits …
*Pic: Flashback to August 2014 … Shree Minerals and its abandoned Tarkine mine-site. Finance analyst Tom Ellison did a thorough job on...
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Is there really anyone to vote for?
“If voting made any difference then they wouldn’t let us do it” – Mark Twain If you believe that a possible change...
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Community required to pay for public land management
Pic: Tree at Half Moon Bay The Crown Land Services (the section of the Parks and Wildlife Service that manages unreserved public...
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Loopholes and lies. The real scandal of Barnaby Joyce …
When principles matter no more – that’s the real scandal, says Simon Longstaff If there is public scandal in connection with Barnaby...
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The multiple misrepresentations of Liberal pollies and industry lobbyists …
First published Feb 25 Yesterday (23/2/2018) I attended a protest in front of Parliament House against poker machine industry. There were 4...
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Abolishing the carbon tax to reduce power bills …
ABC Fact Check has asked Mr Abbott where the figures came from. His office directed the query to Environment Minister Greg Hunt,...
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Syria … where ideology and identity politics makes life ‘poor, nasty, brutish and short’
*Pic: Bashar al Assad greets Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2015. By Пресс-служба Президента России – http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/50533/photos, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45115253 Assad...
