Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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You are right, it is troubling
BOB BURTON, A respone to: Why there was no doorstop Matt, You raise a number of important issues which I’m happy to...
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Chilean court finds Tasmanian politicians guilty of mendacity
BOB McMAHON Four years after a Chilean court determined that the CELCO pulp mill near Valdivia in Southern Chile caused the ecological...
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Court finds Celco guilty of polluting Cruces River
THE SANTIAGO TIMES, Friday, 24 July 2009, Decision Forces Forestry Company To Pay US$550,000 Fine A Santiago court issued a major ruling...
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Why there was no doorstop
MATTHEW ROGERS Senior Political Adviser, Office of David Bartlett MP, Premier of Tasmania It’s true. I advised the Premier against doing a...
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Accurate, verifiable and ultimately absolutely correct
TOM ELLISON Yes, working man, whomever you are. Lets hear what I wrote about Auspine that wasn’t accurate, verifiable and ultimately absolutely...
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How I was muzzled at The Examiner
TOM ELLISON, Stockbroker and Journalist An interesting season is winter. The heat pump in my house expired the day the thermometer first...
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Bust Me Gall and Break Me Neck – Patsy Adam Smith 1968
via Dr DAVID OBENDORF PATSY ADAM-SMITH It seemed to me when I came to Tasmania still in my teens that my lack...
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On Fox, Shit and Post Modern Tasmanian Social Pathology
RICHARD BUTLER There is a social pathology in Tasmania. It is evidenced by a small number of inter-generationally repeated behaviours. 1. The...
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These stupid pollies deserve the fate of the Dodo
JOHN HAYWARD The first thing to understand about the Protection of Agricultural Land Policy is that it is no such thing. It...
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Tassie to get ethics body
MERCURY LEGISLATION to create an Integrity Commission will be tabled before Christmas. The Joint Select Committee on Ethical Conduct released its final...
