Current Affairs

Goodwin Puts Environment at Risk

Attorney-General Vanessa Goodwin has endangered Tasmania’s clean, green land, water and air by denying funding to the Environment Defenders Office of Tasmania....

Madness …

Tassie AFL dream to be realised

Tasmanian football fans are celebrating tonight with the announcement that the State has been granted a licence to field an AFL team...

Victorian Liberal Party probes missing $million-plus. Tassie Libs in damage control …

Damien Mantach The Victorian Liberal Party is being investigated after a forensic audit uncovered the loss of $2 million worth of party...

Kellam’s warning as Will says: ‘There’s nothing to see here …’

Tasmanian public servants are escaping prosecution for misconduct because the Tasmanian Government is complacent, according to the head of the integrity watchdog....

Rupert’s back in town

On August 10 Rupert Murdoch, the Executive Chairman of News Corporation – the parent company of The Mercury – jetted back into...

Mercury: The Fall … and why it matters

Graphs from Here Graeme Wood, make Rupe an offer he can’t refuse … And so Mercury – my home for 23 interesting...

NATION: Abbott’s pigeons come home to roost

Pic: ABC of … ‘incoherent Eric Abetz … perpetually conflicted, confused, muddling through …’ … It is expected that, on appointment, a...

Dyson Heydon … and the Sir Garfield Barwick Address

*Pic: The Shovel: Eyebrows Raised As Dyson Heydon Accidently Wears Liberal Party Cap To Royal Commission Hearing Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon has...

Amnesty votes to support pimps, johns and brothel owners

Feminist Roundup Amnesty International’s biennial International Committee Meeting (ICM) last week voted in favour of a policy position supporting decriminalisation of all...