Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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961Law Reform Report “Tasmania can pass same-sex marriage laws”
Marriage equality advocates have welcomed the release of the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute report which says Tasmania does have the constitutional power...
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24 truth-defeating devices (2)
This is the 23nd 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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Why Afi came to Australia
Beware! This story contains torture details Why and How I left Iran My name is Afi (my birth name is Mohammed but...
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State 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...
