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943Senate Inquiry report calls on state and federal government(s) to act on scourge of marine plastics
Today the Senate Environment and Communications Committee has released a landmark report into the causes and impacts of marine plastic pollution in...
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NATION: It’s on, July 2 Poll
ABCC legislation rejected giving Coalition double dissolution trigger Senate rejects Australian Building and Construction Commission legislation for a second time, giving government...
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Prostitution – the global humanitarian disaster of the 21C
Talk by Isla MacGregor 1 April 2016 Parliament House, Hobart, Tasmania Introduction Thank you, Simone, for speaking of the harms of the...
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NATION: Goodbye Bronny. Malcolm’s Poll slump …
Liberal members choose Jason Falinski as candidate in safe federal seat, dumping former speaker who resigned over $5,500 helicopter ride Bronwyn Bishop...
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NorMAC Nastiness in Hobart: A response
A response to: ‘NorMAC nastiness in Hobart’, HERE Crikey! The pro-sex trade lobby have been misrepresenting Nordic Model supporters with a renewed...
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Rebuilding lives after the Nepal earthquake
*Pic: Singhakali Lower Secondary School in northern Nepal. Photo: Richard I’Anson At a dawn service near Everest, a group of Australians narrowly...
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Port Arthur: Tasman Peninsula’s communications issues still not fixed 20 years on
Communications issues continue to plague the Tasman Peninsula 20 years after the Port Arthur massacre. In April 1996, after Martin Bryant began...
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The role of white privilege in the 60 Minutes kidnapping saga
A major news organisation has shown an extraordinary lapse in judgment by exploiting a mother’s pain and taking part in a serious...
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‘Embracing the Climate Challenge’ …
*Pic: Climate Change in ‘action’ … this year’s devastating bushfires in World Heritage Areas. Pic by Rob Blakers, https://www.robblakers.com/ INTRODUCTION The events...
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East Timor is mad as hell, and it’s our fault
*Pic: Jose Belo (left) and Commander David Alex (right) (Photo: John Martinkus) The East Timorese may be poor, but they are not...
