Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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1.5K29 MPs let corporate interest dictate their votes …
• How they voted: YES: Farrell, Harriss, Hall, Rattray, Taylor, Forrest, Hiscutt, Goodwin, Dean, Mulder. NO: Armitage, Valentine, Gaffney, Finch. The Tasmanian...
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Abbott goes after the ABC …
The prime minister, Tony Abbott, has mounted a fresh attack on the national broadcaster, suggesting the ABC instinctively took “everyone’s side but...
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Michael Mansell calls for 7.5 per cent of state land tax …
Michael Mansell has called on all three political parties to commit to granting Aborigines 7.5% of land tax revenue collected in Tasmania...
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Greens to move no confidence on basis of toxic legislation. NGOs warning. Defeated …
Black Flags, Parliament House, Lawns, Tuesday, January 28. Picture: Matt Newton, http://matthewnewton.com.au/Commercial/People/1/ The Tasmanian Greens today said that if Premier Lara Giddings...
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Save the Tarkine applies to Supreme Court for release of secret EPA documents
Save the Tarkine has lodged an application in the Supreme Court seeking the release of documents pertaining to changes made to the...
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Find me …
Just one of scores of web-based appeal for information on Lucille Butterworth…missing since 1969. The man who claims to have driven the...
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The Rule Of Law – Tasmanian Style
Picture: Bob Burton “The prerequisite for everything political is moral. Politics should be ethics put into practice.” Vaclav Havel. “The ends justify...
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No Federal Police action on Gay
THE AUSTRALIAN Federal Police has declined to go after disgraced former Gunns chairman John Gay by launching a proceeds of crime action....
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The Pulp Mill Follies
This week the Tasmanian parliament will debate, and presumably pass, the Pulp Mill Assessment Amendment Bill 2014 – the so-called ‘doubts removal’...
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Former government heads back plan for honest government
Tasmanians for Transparency has received the endorsement of former state government officials Dr Jocelyn Scutt, Dr Patmalar Ambikapathy Thuraisingham and Mr Barry...
