Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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844Strip search row: Children’s Commissioner must have powers. Heat on O’Byrne
The Tasmanian Greens today said the recent incident involving police strip searching a minor highlighted the need for the Children’s Commissioner to...
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Race to save Ecuador’s ‘lungs of the world’ park
Image, HERE The Yasuni National Park, known as “the lungs of the world” and one of the most bio-diverse places on earth,...
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Tess Lawrence versus McKean Park Lawyers and the NAB
Independent Australia Contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence fronts the Federal Court in Melbourne tomorrow in her appeal against the bankruptcy order made against...
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The fundamental injustice of the Mineral Resources Development Act 1995
Image, HERE The fundamental injustice of the Mineral Resources Development Act 1995 arises from the way the state government grants these exploration...
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Harp Seals On Thin Ice After 32 Years of Warming
ScienceDaily (Jan. 4, 2012) — Warming in the North Atlantic over the last 32 years has significantly reduced winter sea ice cover...
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Killer Drones, Dieback and Democracy
On Wednesday 29 September 2011, one day after he had been found guilty by Justice Mordecai Bromberg of breaching the Racial Discrimination...
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‘Democracy does not apply to Aboriginal people’
Photo by bixentro under a CC Licence Michael, you’ve been one of the initiators of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy that has been...
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Pontville asylum detainees on hunger strike
Picture, from GreenLeft, HERE The Immigration Department says a hunger strike at a detention centre in southern Tasmania is much smaller than...
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The Justice Secretary “Resigns”
Paul Lennon, Age Pic, HERE According to the mainstream media, Justice Secretary Lisa Hutton has “resigned” after a 30 year career in...
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Justice for the few: NAB v. Society
Firstly I’d like to thank my Tassie friends for your support. This article has afforded a lot of emails in support of...
