Tasmanian Times
National
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833Unemployment: an exercise in spin …
Political spinners love statistics. So when the monthly unemployment data for December came out from the Bureau of Statistics, their little eyes...
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Hydro knows what caused Basslink to fail. Why can’t the Plebs know … ?
*Pic: So … what caused the Basslink failure … ? The damaged section of the cable … The Basslink high voltage DC...
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The Mercury …
Over the years my newspaper diet has consisted of the Sydney Morning Herald, the West Australian (not the best), and in the...
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Voller and friends …
The other day I was listening to ABC News Radio, when I heard a segment on how Dylan Voller and his friends...
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Let them vape …
E-cigarettes are devices which vaporise a liquid for inhalation, first successfully developed for commercial sale by a Chinese scientist in 2003. Hon...
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When hospitals make patients sick …
Long ago ‒ 150 years or more ‒ it was noticed that pregnant women whose children were delivered by doctors were much...
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Perish the pension …
*Pic: Pascal Maramis, Flickr At the turn of the year, my $117-a-week age pension disappears. I am not about to whinge that,...
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Plastic Pollution and our Noxious Consumerism
All across the globe there is a silent killer. It invades our everyday lives, outlives us, and invariably threatens all marine life...
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The terrible, fatal lie …
*Pic: Father Rod Bower, Kelsang Dawa, Newcastle Archbishop Greg Thompson and Grand Mufti Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohammed as religious leaders join to...
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The whole damned thing …
*Pic: Flickr, David Blackwell: ‘Walking home one evening in 2074 Paul wondered about the scientific breakthrough reversing the effects of climate change...
