Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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782Greens compassionate refugee plan will save billions
The Australian Greens have released costing details of their election policy on asylum seekers which will save taxpayers $3.2 billion over the...
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Kill it, says Paul Harriss. Federal Labor’s ‘final betrayal’
Upper House MP Paul Harriss has tabled a motion in State Parliament to kill off the historic forest peace deal. Paul Harriss...
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Loosing the Dogs of Xenophobia
“Human beings in particular cannot be discarded. They remain in some way to haunt us.” (Christopher Koch, Out of Ireland, 1999) It’s...
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Tasports wastes public money over breach of process
Tasmanian Greens Member for Bass Kim Booth MP questioning of Minister David O’Byrne today about the marine pilot debacle has revealed that...
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Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years’ jail for WikiLeaks data breach
Bradley Manning has been sentenced to 35 years in jail for giving WikiLeaks files that formed the biggest breach of official secrets...
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Dead-Tree Media continues to topple …
ABCs: Newspaper circulations quicken nosedive, compact can’t stop to rot for Fairfax Newspaper print circulation maintained its steepening decline in the June...
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Tasmania, The Peephole State
Australia’s picturesque island state of Tasmania lures tourists with the slogans “Go Behind The Scenery” and “Explore The Possibilities”. The Tasmanian police...
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Corrupt libel law
This is the 18th extract from Evan Whitton’s Our Corrupt Legal System, available free at netk.net.au/whittonhome.asp. Whitton is a legal historian, an...
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Sir Humphrey and Bernard
In a land far, far away in a parallel universe… A Fable… Tonight’s episode: Due Process Setting: Hallowed halls of Westminister Time:...
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Free speech is not free activism
Richard Griggs writes an open letter [Open letter in support of free speech and reform in Tasmania, TT here] “…in support of...
