Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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1.4K‘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...
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The 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...
