Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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782Would you protect our individual freedoms or take them away?
Ask a political candidate: if elected, would you protect our individual freedoms or take them away? Tasmanians are highly likely to come...
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Organised criminals start common law
This is the fourth extract from Our Corrupt Legal System, by legal historian Evan Whitton. Much of it will be new to...
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Shock of The New Amendments
The Signatories to the Tasmanian Forests Agreement have expressed concerns over the extent of amendment to the enacting legislation in the Legislative...
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No justice
Senate kills background checks Huffington Post’s powerful main page …
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MP leads a new war of the woods
Tony Mulder Only months after achieving the impossible – peace in Tasmania’s forests – timber chiefs and greenies face the unthinkable: a...
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Public Office is Public Trust?
Photo of President’s Chair from Tas Parliament website: http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/parl2.htm# Jim Wilkinson is a lawyer, consultant and former partner inWallace Wilkinson & Webster,...
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Abortion: My Real Story
My role is Director for Tasmania and “New” Site Coordinator for Rachel’s Vineyard retreats within Australia and nearby countries. I hope this...
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Whitton: Origins of the two systems
Evelin Sullivan wrote in The Concise Book of Lying (Picador, 2002): ‘The liar’s intention is to make others believe what the liar...
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Message from a voter
Dear Mr. O’Connor, During the past Liberal government’s term in office, many Australians were appalled to read about the incarceration of refugees...
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Childhood lead exposure linked to crime in adulthood
Isla MacGregor: It would be very useful for the Department of Health to conduct research on crime statistics from Rosebery, Zeehan, and...
