Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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1.1KThe cartel: law as business
This is the16th extract from Evan Whitton’s Our Corrupt Legal System, available free at netk.net.au/whittonhome.asp. Whitton is a legal historian, a trade...
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Shadow of Doubt cast over grandmother’s 23 years’ sentence for murder
The Eve Ash documentary SHADOW OF DOUBT will have its world premiere at the Hobart State Cinema and on FoxtelCi on Wednesday...
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$1 bet limits: I’m already on board. The Greens Policy
I strongly support, and have long supported, $1 bet limits and $500 jackpot restrictions on poker machines. It was my preferred position...
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Lurch Beyond Brutopia. The Manus Whistleblower …
Back in November 2006 Kevin Rudd wrote an article for The Monthly titled Howard’s Brutopia, in which he contrasted his own “social...
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Dud DAFF report demonstrates need for animal welfare office. Farmer’s guilt
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has condemned the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry’s report into the 2012 Pakistan sheep...
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Mine’s impact on Tasmanian devil. Why is Shree Minerals a Protected Species?
Departmental advice tendered in evidence during Save the Tarkine’s successful Federal Court challenge to the Commonwealth approval of Shree Minerals’ Nelson Bay...
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Right To Information denied on Savage River mine tailings dam spill
On 31st May this year the Tasmanian Public and Environmental Health Network submitted a Right To Information (RTI) application to the Department...
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Now the Police are farmers as they ‘harvest’ the highways
We often wondered why many cars were pulled over by police on the Tasman Highway between St Helens and St Mary’s Pass....
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So you can basically lie …
This is the15th extract from Our Corrupt Legal System. The author, Evan Whitton, is a legal historian, a trade almost as rare...
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We are concerned that Telstra has breached the Privacy Act
Mr Tim Pilgrim Australian Information Commissioner GPO Box 5218 Sydney NSW 2001 16 July 2013 Dear Mr Pilgrim, We are making a...
