Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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Labor’s public service blowout
Mark Baker Examiner THE price of running the State’s bureaucracy has increased by $800 million since the Labor Government came into power...
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Police probe legal post
Sue Neales Mercury POLICE are investigating an explosive new allegation of corruption at the highest levels of Tasmanian political and legal circles....
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Negativity is not the best way forward…
David Chadwick If an alien were to view your web page he/she/it would have no problem in finding good reasons for staying...
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Abetz and the High Court
John Hawkins Abetz has always been a man on a mission – a mission to aid and abet the forestry industry to...
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Be Aware, Commissioner Jack
Bob McMahon Be aware Commissioner, that in your attempt to solve an anticipated problem you will assuredly create a much bigger one....
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Police gear up to cope with pulp mill protest
Mark Worley Mercury TASMANIA Police has crafted a plan to deal with big protests at Gunns’ proposed pulp mill. Commissioner Jack Johnston...
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The need for a public ethics commission
Henry Melville Tasmanian Times readers……are you going to be a mob of sheep roused together by the sheep dogs, sent through the...
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885Here’s lookin’ at you
Peter Salamanca, midday, Friday I looked up as I walked over to Salamanca Place and saw – not one, but three CCTV...
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Life: A Day at the Magistrates Court
Margot Giblin …”I don’t have a license. Who cares?” The police did. So did the magistrate. It was hoped that the defendant...
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Drug sniffing dogs
Edith Abraham Unfortunately, the most likely result of this initiative is a further backlog in the already overcrowded services which would prefer...
