Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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802Three quarters of Australians back mandatory limits on poker machines
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has welcomed another in a long line of national polls showing overwhelming support for poker...
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Gazing wistfully at old magazines…
Now this isn’t about photography, though I guess it was driven by a nostalgia for the great picture magazines of the 1960s....
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Framing The Narrative: Murdoch v. Assange
I should be doing something else right now. As my wife frequently reminds me, I don’t get paid to write about WikiLeaks....
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Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual
In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets...
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UNDERSTANDING WOOD
Karl Stevens
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I hope I’ll be an example to others
Tasmania’s Deputy Premier, Bryan Green, has been disqualified from driving for three months after pleading guilty in the Magistrates Court in Hobart...
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Plantations up in biomass smoke
EXCLUSIVE: Great Southern Plantations receiver McGrathNicol is under attack over the foreign sell-off of 252,000ha of farm land. And the chief executive...
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The Harry Holgate Book or a Wikipedia indulgence … ?
Information about former Tasmanian Premier Harry Holgate is scarce. He was born in Maitland, New South Wales in 1933 and died of...
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Walker Corp fined a record $200,000 for unlawful land clearance
ONE of the country’s biggest property developers has been fined $200,000 by the NSW Land and Environment Court for unlawfully clearing 23hectares...
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Political parties violate our rights to privacy
WHAT a wonderful thing that the federal government, indeed politicians of all political stripes, are taking such an astute interest in citizens’...
