Tasmanian Times
International
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1.2KBudget 2018: A frontal assault on a fair go for all Australians …
*Satire: Leunig, http://www.leunig.com.au/ used with permission Senator WHISH-WILSON (Tasmania) (16:17): I might take up where Senator Fawcett finished off, on the things...
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Criminally minded … and how you can change it all
When a person becomes “criminally minded”, the circumstances that brought them to that place are many, varied and complicated. No one is...
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NATION: Neither budget mania nor Macron mania divert the Coalition’s war on the poor
First published May 9 Australia is seized by budget mania. Abuzz. Agog. But after weeks of frenzied expectation, leaks and speculation, relief...
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Trump withdraws from the Iran deal …
*Cartoon: Martyn Turner, used with permission: https://www.facebook.com/martynturnercartoons/ . http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/martyn-turner • news.com.au: Trump pulls US out of Iran nuclear deal in major blow...
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After Afrîn: the Ottoman dreaming of Sultan Erdoğan
First published May 6 On March 18, Turkish troops supported by a 10,000-strong horde of Islamist militiamen stormed into the city of...
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‘Cuts to Federal Environmental staff will see the extinction of Tasmanian species’
*Pic: Grey Goshawk. All Pics are ©Eric Woehler, BirdLife Tasmania. Wedge-tailed Eagle. Swift Parrot Black-browed Albatross The proposed cuts of 30% of...
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Climate Change – Teller told us so!
*Pic: Physicist Edward Teller pointing at a formula on a blackboard on 22 May 1968. Photograph: STF/AFP In 1959 Hungarian born Physicist...
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First Day … May …
*Pic: The striking iridescent blue of the Mycena interrupta Tarkine Fungi: Now is the moment to get amidst it all! Celebrate the...
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Mr Trump and the Nobel Prize …
*Cartoon: Martyn Turner, used with permission: https://www.facebook.com/martynturnercartoons/ . http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/martyn-turner
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‘Mountain MayDay Sunday 6th May @11am, Cascade Gardens’
First published April 20 Writer Richard Flanagan will join former Greens Leader Bob Brown and Denison MP Andrew Wilkie as well as...
