Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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967Forestry Managed Investment Schemes: $4 billion more reasons for a Royal Commission
The Senate Economics Committee has today released its report into the collapse of forestry MIS in Australia, detailing the rise and fall...
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Cheeeeeeekyyyyyyy!x
*Pic: Launch of Confessions of a Ferret Salesman. Bob is with Maxine The Ferret … Read all about the launch HERE No...
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What Nick Kyrgios could learn from Conor McGregor …
Saturday! Sport (Satire) SHORT TENNIS RETIREMENT ENDS … BADLY It was the shortest retirement in tennis history. Not long before Lleyton Hewitt’s...
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The Saturday Paper’s Exclusives …
• What’s next for Marriage Equality • The rich people who pay no tax • Bushfire prevention strategy questioned • Paul Bonjiorno:...
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Seafish Tasmania fined $40,000. EPA investigation cost $100,000
Seafood processing company Seafish Tasmania has been fined $40,000 for breaching the state’s environmental laws. The company pleaded guilty to dumping more...
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An outsider’s look at the contentious practice of clearfell logging ..
*Pic: Logging Lapoinya … industrial-scale clearfelling in a much-loved local forest … and the future veneer trundles off to Ta Ann (over...
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Notes on the Syrian exodus: ‘Epic in scale, inconceivable until you witness it’
*Pic: Richard Flanagan’s picture of Syrian refugees arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos, January 2016 … Booker prize winner Richard Flanagan...
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Turn it Off
*Pic: Rodney Pople’s 2012 Glover Art Prize winner entitled ‘Port Arthur’ … with Martin Bryant … I watch very little television these...
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Gaming the system
The late Padraic P McGuiness, editor of Quadrant and scourge of the left – in a rare moment of magnanimity – once...
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In Defence of Thoughtful Young People …
I’ve only just seen my old friend Charles Wooley’s piece “Deceptions and such pranks are fun”, which appeared in the Tasmanian Times...
