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OECD’s National Contact Point in Ottawa dismisses NGO complaint against real estate business of Sarawak Governor Taib Mahmud’s daughter – Sakto Group...
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The meaning of BREXIT …
*Cartoon: Martyn Turner, used with permission: https://www.facebook.com/martynturnercartoons/ . http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/martyn-turner First published April 4 Read this, brilliant, editorial in The Observer …
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Long distance transport of Tasmanian animals …
*Pic: Photo credit: Les Blair, www.marinetraffic.com Before you start preparing your lamb chops or Sunday lamb roast, spare a thought for the...
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Huon council short-shrifts former mayor’s plea to pay his legal costs …
First published March 29 Huon Valley Guessing Games It is not too late for Huon Valley Council’s (nine-councillors-in-one) commissioner, Adriana Taylor, to...
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Darkness and Light
Perhaps it’s because spring is coming and everything is more acute. There is more light. But there is still much dark. And...
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NATION: Barnaby’s edible donkey skin trade easier to swallow than Turnbull’s 18C lies …
First published March 27 “It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and...
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The massive public subsidy of a private family-owned firm …
From ‘Team Mulawa’ here: “Greg Farrell Jr, “Mr. Mulawa”: Greg is by nature very hands-on – activity done translates into learning and...
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Old farts …
*Pic: The Baby Boomer generation … Image from here First published March 20 What a rotten time to be young. The place...
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We’re back … !x
Hosting issues ( Explanation here ) meant TT was not accessible yesterday. But we’re backkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk … more annoying than ever!x
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Education, productivity and economic performance: Tasmania, then, now and tomorrow
First published 8pm, March 16 I want to thank the members of the Committee of the Launceston Historical Society for inviting me...
