Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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2.4KFoxes: Ivan Dean and the Kitchell report
The Honourable member for Windemere, Mr Ivan Dean (above) discussed the Max Kitchell Review of the Fox Eradication Program (2013) ( Here...
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ASIC calls for tougher penalties for white collar crime
ASIC will call for tougher penalties for white collar crime in its latest Senate submission, due to be released this week. According...
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Tasmania: Brenton’s bitch. Entura’s ditch. Same-sex, same result … ?
• Get rid of Greens or quit, Labor rebel Brenton Best tells Premier Lara Giddings • Entura jobs cut amid downturn in...
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Law, morality and the legacy of HLA Hart
Rembrandt, Two old men disputing 1628, National Gallery of Victoria HLA Hart Evan Whitton, former editor of the National Times, is a...
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Dead-tree media stirs for resurrection …
Donald Knowler this year celebrates a half century in the newspaper business. He started work as a messenger boy in Fleet Street...
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Now the Tassie gay marriage bill has been found to be constitutionally safe …
When the Same-Sex Marriage Bill was narrowly defeated in the Upper House last year the main concern of MLCs was the constitutionality...
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Antarctic marine reserve threatened by sunset clause. Vigil/Rally, Hobart, Monday
Talks to create the world’s two largest marine reserves in the Antarctic could be undermined by a last-ditch push for a “sunset...
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A widow’s son outlawed: Ned Kelly versus the emptiness of Chopper Read
Call me old-fashioned, but as far as celebrity outlaws go, I’ll take Ned Kelly over Chopper Read any day. The rise to...
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24 truth-defeating devices (3)
This is the 24th extract from Evan Whitton’s Our Corrupt Legal System, available free at netk.net.au/whittonhome.asp The story so far English common...
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The conservative – and quite bizarre – view that growing industrial hemp …
It’s not often we do this, but Tasmanian farmers take their hats off to two state Labor MPs, two Liberal MPs and...
