Tasmanian Times
International
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1.3KPeter Jones: It’s also brave to stand for peace
As we approach the anniversary of the Gallipoli landings and then the shift of focus to the Western Front, it is worth...
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Tasmania introduces “religious freedom” legislation, just days after Indiana scraps it
In the last few weeks something extraordinary happened in the US state of Indiana. Governor Michael Pence presided over new legislation to...
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Venture Minerals’ 2 cents worth
*ABC Pic: The buck (should) stop here … Minister for Resources Paul Harriss and Premier Will Hodgman … Venture Minerals shares have...
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An ANZAC reflection …
The meaning of ANZAC is everywhere this autumn morning in a small, Western District soldier-settlement as a few old-timers rugged up against...
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Bread-and-circuses live on …
So, our disastrously misguided national leader, Tony Abbott, thinks that Iranian asylum seekers whose pleas to be accepted as refugees have been...
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The lessons of history are critically important …
• ANZAC: 100 YEARS ON … Q&A with Peter Cundall & Senator Peter Whish-Wilson: A century ago thousands of Australians were sent...
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Super Trawler ban must ban Super Trawlers. Don Knowler: The forgotten stakeholders …
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has called on the Federal Government to apply the ban on super trawlers to include...
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What comes after sorry?
‘For the indignity and degradation … inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry … this Parliament resolves...
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Family learns fate of WWI Belgian boy smuggled out of country and adopted by Tasmanian soldier
A Tasmanian family has finally discovered the fate of a Belgian boy Australian soldiers smuggled out of the horror of WWI-ravaged Belgium,...
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A Blast from the Past in the Tarkine Karst
*Pic: Sumac Rivulet sinkhole region clearfelled and burnt in the 1980s … Take a look at the 1:25.000 Sumac Map of the...
