Tasmanian Times
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1.0KDeceptions and such pranks are fun though …
Image from here I’m a fairly trusting bloke but only after I’ve exhausted all the possibilities of chicanery, deception and perfidy, commonly...
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MEDIA: Ready for the reputation rumble …
*Pic: All about Alexander The Great, Wikipedia here The French political philosopher Montesquieu, in his work The Spirit of the Laws, wrote...
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MEDIA: Insided Out …
It’s now four years since the US journalism academic Jay Rosen decried at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival about the “cult of savvy”...
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Tassie Pine – World Press Freedom
The official UN week of World Press Freedom … Hon Terry Aulich Chair Aulich & Co PO Box 3122 WEST HOBART TAS...
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STATE: Milne got results from minority pacts with both sides of politics
*Pic: Matthew Newton captures the real Christine Milne … Matthew Newton, http://matthewnewton.com.au/Commercial/People/1/ … compared to Mercury pic here … Christine Milne, who...
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NATION: A serious own-goal by the brain dead. Chan, Sukumaran …
The heavy-handed forced selling of a Chinese owned existing property in Wolsley Road Point Piper ( Daily Telegraph: Foreign investment crackdown: Chinese...
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One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut …
One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber...
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Double hit of Tassie Pine … The danger for journos …
This is the first of four Tassie Pine’s that concentrate on the dangers for journalists working in places like Russia. It begins...
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Why Does 1080 Poison Make Kiwis Like Lewis Angry?
*Main Pic: Lewis Hore, left and a mate out in the wilds … 1080 poison warning notices are commonplace – contradicting New...
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Hard line on refugees undermines principled opposition to execution
*Pic: ABC pic of a lifeboat Australia uses to send asylum seekers back to Indonesia … On Wednesday morning, Prime Minister Tony...
