Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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2.3KSomething in the Water … An urgent need to re-evaluate
*Pic: ABC of Dr Alison Bleaney and Dr Marcus Scammell at the George River … In Feb 2010 Bleaney and Scammell released...
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NATION: Manus; We must act …
*Image from here No words could ever describe life in Manus Island Detention Centre, but imagine you are trapped in a makeshift,...
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A request for the removal of an Eric Abetz ad
Tasmanian Times received the following letter from Walter Abetz, brother of Eric Abetz. Senator Abetz is Leader of the Government in the...
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Call for State and Uni to dump Taib Mahmud … and Ta Ann
*Pic: Abdul Taib Mahmud … Five years after Sarawak Report first exposed Taib Mahmud’s questionable links with Adelaide University, the university’s Vice-Chancellor...
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The fall and fall of The Mercury
The Mercury – Tasmania’s largest circulation newspaper – is in deep, deep trouble. A leaked News Corporation Australia’s financial report from July...
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Tasmanian achievement a matter of national pride
Australian Greens Leader Senator Christine Milne is congratulating fellow Tasmanian Rodney Croome on his courageous and persistent activism for gay rights and...
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Fact-Checking Julia Jabour and Indi Hodgson-Johnston
*Pic: The Bob Barker pursues the illegally-fishing Thunder through a gale … The Sam Simon has collected more than 60km of net...
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STATE: The Irony; France, Tasmania … and Freedom of Speech
The Editor Dear Sir RE: FREEDOM OF SPEECH It is ironic that at the same time there are mass demonstrations in France...
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The Smith Street Band attacks Tony Abbott’s refugee policy with new song
*Pic by Ian Laidlaw from Noise11, here From Bob Dylan’s classic 1960s folk songs to the shocking, electric frenzy of the Sex...
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Dickens on our corrupt legal system
For those interested in the law, Sunday night is Bleak House. We fill a beaker of Armagnac, set fire to a long...
