Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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2.5KLaw, 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...
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Australia: Climate laggard lashed. Al Gore responds to Tony …
Pic: Looking towards Blackheath from Katoomba; https://twitter.com/workmanalice • The Age: Clear link between climate change and bushfires: UN adviser warns Tony Abbott...
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Advocates call for Upper House to act on marriage law …
In the wake of same-sex marriage legislation in the ACT, Tasmanian marriage equality advocates have called on the state Upper House to...
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‘Illegal’ label lashed
• The Guardian: Scott Morrison defends decision to call asylum seekers ‘illegals’ Immigration Minister Scott Morrison says he is simply calling “a...
