Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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900State sponsored drug growing and media promotion of drugs
I noticed an article in The Mercury concerning a second stage grant of $900,000 of public monies to expand the wine growing...
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Open letter to The Mercury: Make it stop!
Dear Boofhead-in-Chief, Last Saturday I received a non-personally-addressed copy of the Mercury. Tossed over my fence. FFS, we’ve just had a Federal...
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Are Australia’s political parties illegal?
Is there an enabling act, or piece of legislation, that gives Australia’s political parties legitimacy? Have Australia’s political parties got a legal...
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State to purchase cage-free eggs only
The Tasmanian Greens today welcomed confirmation that Treasury Procurement requirements now mandate that State agencies and departments must purchase non-caged eggs. Greens...
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New hope for marriage equality
The Tasmanian Greens Leader Nick McKim MP today welcomed moves by Murchison MLC Ruth Forrest to bring the Same Sex Marriage Bill...
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Greenpeace: Speak up for our silenced activists
On Thursday 19 September, 28 Greenpeace International activists and two freelance photojournalists were arrested under armed guard off the Russian coast after...
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Environmentalists launch another bid to stop a Tarkine mine
Activist group Save the Tarkine has mounted a Federal Court challenge to a mine approval in Tasmania’s north-west. The group’s challenging the...
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Government must speak out on heavy handed treatment of activists – Greens
The Greens want the government to do more to secure the release of Australian (Tasmanian) Colin Russell and other activists being held...
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Death in Amsterdam
As Tasmania debates voluntary assisted dying law reform, Margaretta Pos tells a very personal story … One spring day in Hobart, I...
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Tasmanian markets in danger from noisy pro-GE lobby
The Tasmanian Greens today warned that Tasmanian primary producers who benefit from Tasmania’s GE moratorium were in serious danger of being drowned...
