Tasmanian Times
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898Land of the Unfair Go
It’s the false dawns that must be the hardest. After finally escaping a war-torn homeland, surviving a harrowing and perilous decampment and,...
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Tony Abbott’s YouTube suspended after ‘deceptive content’ complaint
The prime minister, Tony Abbott, had his YouTube account mistakenly suspended on the weekend after users complained it had deceptive content. The...
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Normal service resumes on Monday, February 24
From today – unavoidably – Tasmanian Times enters Caretaker Mode. Articles will continue to be posted by Bob and James. So …...
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29 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...
