Current Affairs

Slipper touches down, Labor poised to blow up. Wilkie

Picture from Sunshine Coast Daily here Federal Parliamentary Speaker Peter Slipper has arrived back in Australia to face a barrage of questions...

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Shock discovery …

Karl Stevens

DISMISSED! Paul Harris ‘called out’. The Stench. DISMISSED: Court rejects Gunns

Dear … As referred to in my previous email correspondence dated 8 March 2012, a report entitled “CEO’s determination under s38 Integrity...

Mike Wallace and American Media

I am sorry to hear of Mike Wallace’s death and extend sincere sympathies to his colleagues and family. A career even half...

New views crucial to Australia’s literary culture

ISLAND magazine has been an acute observer of the Tasmanian literary scene for decades. It incorporates local voices with national representation, offering...

The case of Julian Assange: do constitutional principles matter?

“If he doesn’t win it means that anyone can be extradited from the UK, be arrested and put into detention at the...

The Gag goes in

Huon Valley Guessing Games Councillors last night (April 18) voted 8-1 to further inhibit their freedom of expression and to impose management...

Mercury cops record $124,000 payout for defaming cop

Andrew Gunston The Hobart Mercury newspaper has been ordered to pay a former police officer more than $124,000 in damages after it...

Titanic moments …

Monty