Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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938NAB loans to ‘Fat Tony’ Mokbel and the missing files
Tony Mokbel bewigged: is this the worst disguise in history? Contributing editor-at-large for Independent Australia Tess Lawrence reports on the links between...
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Police to merge districts, cut senior jobs
Cost-cutting …? A speed camera disguised as a builder’s trailer. Pic: Rob Walls, http://robertwalls.wordpress.com/ Costly … ! The now-mothballed MV Fortescue Tasmania’s...
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Australian prostitution laws helping Korean human traffickers
State government laws endorsing prostitution and brothels are being used by human traffickers to entice young Asian women into the trade, according...
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Back off Walsh, says Brown
A TAX Office lawsuit seeking $37 million in back taxes from MONA founder David Walsh could cast a shadow over plans to...
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Simon Overland named new Tasmanian Secretary of Justice
Simon Overland named new Tasmanian Secretary of Justice Peter Rolfe Herald Sun July 04, 2012 4:40PM FORMER Victoria Police chief Simon Overland...
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The Future of Hobart’s rail line
Pic: Mathew Sharp Late June saw Federal Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese hand over $50 million to the State Government for the clean-up...
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Michael Pervan back … as the boss!
Twenty one months after being suspended and investigated and banished as Royal Hobart Hospital Chief Executive Michael Pervan is back! Tasmanian Times...
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“A significant gap remains”
Image: http://www.hreoc.gov.au/social_justice/health/index.html Aboriginal communities and human rights groups are in full cry over a legislation feared to being approved by the Australian...
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Losing strength? An alternative vision of Spain’s indignados
Image: http://griid.org/2012/01/20/spains-indignados-and-the-globalization-of-dissent/ Is the 15-M movement going invisible? Or is it rather gaining strength in the ‘underground’? The mainstream media keep claiming...
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Liberals’ plan crackdown on rogue protesters
Richard Colbeck Andrew Nikolic The federal Liberal Party has declared war on environmental protesters in preparation for the next election. The Liberal...
