Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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992Huon Valley Council: Read for Yourself …
*Pic: From Peter Gutwein’s Facebook page HERE: Treasurer Gutwein and Premier Will Hodgman spruik the 2016 Budget … Download … • Ministerial_Response_to_the_Huon_Valley_Council_Board_of_Inquiry_Report_June_2016.pdf...
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We’d love to stop mass shootings …
Sorry, Republicans, but we’re pretty sure the Founding Fathers were not referring to assault rifles that can shoot 130 people at once....
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In Memoriam …
*Pic: In Memoriam … Please feel free to use, with respect. Image © Giles Hugo 2016. Teach kids to shoot with cameras,...
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The beermat of laughter, and loss …
TT Books: Ode to the Ancient Sub-Editor It’s not much to look at, the beermat from the former journalists’ watering hole, Montgomery’s...
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Bob’s Tarkine vision …
*Pic: Ted Mead Pic: Jenny Weber How times change … My home town’s newspaper The Advocate has devoted an entire front page...
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Unsustainable Tasmanian waste management
*Pic: The SWS waste dump site … More waste is going to Tasmanian landfill than ever before. The current form of waste...
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TEC Tells FMD To POQ
*Pic: … from Eric Abetz’s website HERE The Tasmanian Electoral Commission has refused an application for registration made by the Fuck Me...
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Call the 2016 elections off – chaos for postal voters
*Pic: Image from HERE: Doc Searls, Flickr We are currently in an EU country and trying to vote. I ring the consular...
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Australians care about political finance – and they want to see the system tightened
Debates around breaches – and reform – of Australia’s system of political finance are usually conducted by elected politicians or party officials,...
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How taxpayers are obliged to fund a racket
*Pic: Image from HERE Taxpayers pay the wages of judges, prosecutors and police and fund two legal systems. So far as I...
