Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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881Mill Permits: Acid on Wightman as Giddings stays silent and flick-passes
MINISTER MUST COMMIT TO LEGAL ACTION ON GUNNS PULP MILL The Tasmanian Greens today called on the Attorney General Brian Wightman to...
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Is this responsible reporting?
The Examiner was great reading Tuesday morning for pulp mill buffs. A terrific front-page colour photograph of some yellow excavators in a...
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Fear, Inc.: America’s Islamophobia Network
At this time last year, as the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks approached, the country was gripped by a pernicious...
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Gillard calls; Australian sorry
THE alarm bells had been ringing in Julia Gillard’s office for days, but they really went shrill after the first of the...
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Bio-morph – experiments in simultaneous biography No. 7: David (O’)Byrne
David (O’)Byrne is an artist, musician and Tasmanian Labor politician. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,...
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The Permit: Last minute surprise! And much tortuous detail…
Dear Reader, This article is long, some of it is ‘technical’ and deals with The Pulp Mill Permit. It consists actually of...
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Generation F*cked
The UN’s first ever report on the state of childhood in the industrialized West made unpleasant reading for many of the world’s...
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Lies, promises and mandates
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott routinely denounces Prime Minister Julia Gillard as a liar. He does so with the tacit support, through failure...
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Public opinion and representative democracy
What role should public opinion play in the ultimate political resolution of such public policy debates as climate change, asylum-seekers, the war...
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Louisiana paper mill spill causes massive fish kill
(Reuters) – A rotten stench hung over a 60-mile stretch of Louisiana’s Pearl River as boats trawled through thick layers of hundreds...
