Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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2.3KThe judge as Humpty Dumpty
This is the 17th extract from Evan Whitton’s Our Corrupt Legal System, available free at netk.net.au/whittonhome.asp. Whitton is a legal historian, a...
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An error of fact
Opponents of a Tasmanian same-sex marriage have declared often and loudly that “marriage is a federal issue”. It was this slogan that...
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Murder conviction does not comply with law, legal expert says. The Herald-Sun report
Dr Robert N. Moles, retired Associate Professor of Law, has investigated alleged miscarriages of justice for 30 years, and is the author...
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ICAC recommends charges against former NSW Labor ministers Eddie Obeid and Ian Macdonald
The New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has recommended former Labor ministers Ian Macdonald and Eddie Obeid face criminal charges...
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Butler approves Tarkine mine …
Federal Environment Minister Mark Butler has approved Shree Minerals’ mine in Tasmania’s Tarkine region. The initial approval for the $20 million project...
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He is the quintessential whistleblower
Today Bradley Manning, a whistleblower, was convicted by a military court at Fort Meade of 19 offences for supplying the press with...
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‘Greens lost in wilderness on toxics’
‘It is not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends that in the end hurts us the most’...
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‘Powerful doco shows justice gone feral’
I’ve just pre-viewed a chilling TV doco, Shadow of Doubt, about justice in Australia: a woman is serving 23 years in jail...
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Animal cruelty, Tasmania
Last Wednesday, at the Magistrates’ Court in Launceston, sentencing proposals were put to Magistrate Reg Marron by Prosecutor Harry Virs in the...
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Rudd: Australia Is At War
Prime Minister Rudd formally declared war on refugees today when he announced that people arriving by boat would be treated as enemy...
