Tasmanian Times
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954TFA passes
The Tasmanian Greens today welcomed the passage through both Houses of the Tasmanian Parliament the Tasmanian Forest Agreement Act Initial Proposed Reserve...
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Dudded on Durability: How the Members of the Legislative Council are being misled
Dear Legislative Councillors, Nothing would please me more to be able to say that we support this durability report, the Governments response...
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Rolf Harris charged with indecent assault and making indecent images of a child
Rolf Harris has made no public comment following revelations British police have charged him with nine counts of indecent assault and four...
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Forest and Human Rights campaigners appear in court over Ta Ann protest
Today in Hobart magistrates court, two university students will appear, in charges they received when protesting at the Ta Ann mill in...
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Essendon besieged
The hounds have been baying at Essendon for months but it is still a surprise to see the confidence with which sports...
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TT Tasmanian of the Year Award 2013
Tasmanian Asylum Seeker Support (TASS)!!! TASS has harnassed the powerful generosity and compassion that exists within so many Tasmanians and through this...
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Capricious and partisan – Is that how the Legislative Council wants to be seen?
In the otherwise commendable Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Act there is an odd little section which, if the Liberal Party and the Upper House...
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Lucy’s Story: Media Manipulation
The Examiner of 23rd August, 2013 ( electronic edition: Watch our Bass candidates in action ) contained either a terrible gaffe by...
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Asylum Seeker Myth Buster
*Picture: Christmas Island wreck, from ABC News online. Myth: Asylum seekers are illegal immigrants FACT: Asylum seekers are neither illegal nor are...
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Dream over for boat people back in Sri Lanka
On a beach in the midday breeze fishermen stitch their nets and smoke, waiting for the wind and weather to turn favourable....
