Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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770Are news sites restricting readers’ comments?
Everyone’s entitled to an opinion, but online news sites are now less interested in giving readers’ a chance to voice it. That’s...
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Edward Snowden, meet Jeff Bezos
What we do know about Snowden is something we don’t know about the new owner of the Washington Post: whether he can...
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Greens to help tourism industry break dirty Coca-Cola habit
Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, Australian Greens spokesperson for both tourism and recycling, returned from this week’s 2013 Tasmanian Tourism Conference on “sustainable tourism”...
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Stop The Boats!
Ed: Apologies for the spelling error … that’s the way it came! Ten Pound Pom
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Leading barrister asks A-G Wightman to hold Inquiry into ‘unsafe’ conviction
A letter from Robert Richter QC, one of Australia’s leading silks, has been provided to the Tasmanian Attorney-General, the Hon. Brian Wightman,...
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Ex-Gunns boss John Gay fears prison will harm health
The insider trading sentencing hearing for the former head of Gunns has been told a prison sentence would severely affect his health....
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Love and fairness are not radical fashions
In response to Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, calling same-sex marriage a “fashion of the moment” and a “radical change”, marriage equality advocates...
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More sex appeal …
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The Anti-Wilkie Denison Billboard Stoush
[..] Andrew Wilkie has stated that he will not enter into any deal/agreement to support either party. This has been widely interpreted...
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Muffled Voices
In 1914 – long before television, the internet and the 24 hour news cycle – Uruguayan writer José Enrique Rodó published an...
