Tasmanian Times
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842Will Hodgman, Matthew Groom: Tasmania Opens for Ideas
Today the Liberal Government has taken the first step towards transforming Tasmania into the environment tourism capital of the world. Expressions of...
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Tell the governments you’re mad as Hell, and you’re not going to take it any more
Joe ‘If you’d asked me for advice I would have said to you – adopt a sort of “don’t ask, don’t tell”...
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Complaint to Salil Shetty on Amnesty’s sex work policy
On Friday last week Amnesty’s Secretary General Salil Shetty received a complaint about the conduct of the International Secretariat (IS) and the...
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Wikileaks reveals Australian government on global deregulation bender
The Greens spokesperson for Trade, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson provides the following comments in response to the WikiLeaks revelation about the details of...
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Tasmania’s World Heritage debate needs to look beyond the trees
*Pic: Rob Blakers’ pic of Florentine Valley World Heritage proposed for delisting by State and Federal Liberal governments … The debate around...
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Lost in translation: Iraq III, Rorts for Oil and the Coalition of the Killing
In a joint press conference with Kevin Rudd in Canberra in 2009, now embattled Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki allegedly condemned the Howard...
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Support for asylum centre processing centre in Pontville
The Churches of Christ in Victoria and Tasmania Asylum Seeker Network today called on the Tasmanian Government to support the proposed move...
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Country towns: death or deliverance. A visit to Scottsdale …
*Pic: A sandwich board in the main street of Scottsdale surrounded by buildings for sale. (Di Martin/ABC). The ABC’s Background Briefing investigative...
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Abbott left in Obama’s wake as US acts on ocean conservation. PLUS: Chaplains
The United States has taken further lead on climate, science and conservation with President Barack Obama using his executive powers to declare...
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Network announces powerful new Global Paper Vision
*Pic: Rob Blakers’ pic of Florentine Valley World Heritge proposed for delisting by State and Federal Liberal governments 120 social and environmental...
