Tasmanian Times
National
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968I’m a conservative, but this asylum seekers comic is disgusting
There’s something fascinating about the government’s latest foray into deterrence propaganda, produced by the Customs and Border Protection Service to deter asylum...
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Climate science must be part of national curriculum
A guest speaker at the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society’s (AMOS) annual conference tomorrow will call for climate science to be included...
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Rupert Murdoch’s attack on ‘our ABC’ like a mediaeval siege
So there I was about to have a colonoscopy. In front of me was the Herald Sun. I read it – a...
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Land of the Unfair Go
It’s the false dawns that must be the hardest. After finally escaping a war-torn homeland, surviving a harrowing and perilous decampment and,...
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Tony Abbott’s YouTube suspended after ‘deceptive content’ complaint
The prime minister, Tony Abbott, had his YouTube account mistakenly suspended on the weekend after users complained it had deceptive content. The...
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The Failure of Far Right-Wing Ideology
An early taste of things to come for Tasmania under the anthropogenic climate change that the failure of right wing ideology is...
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29 MPs let corporate interest dictate their votes …
• How they voted: YES: Farrell, Harriss, Hall, Rattray, Taylor, Forrest, Hiscutt, Goodwin, Dean, Mulder. NO: Armitage, Valentine, Gaffney, Finch. The Tasmanian...
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Abbott goes after the ABC …
The prime minister, Tony Abbott, has mounted a fresh attack on the national broadcaster, suggesting the ABC instinctively took “everyone’s side but...
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The Traitors’ Club
Sooner or later in life people move themselves to the status of bemused spectator. The point where concern or caring gives way...
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Greens to move no confidence on basis of toxic legislation. NGOs warning. Defeated …
Black Flags, Parliament House, Lawns, Tuesday, January 28. Picture: Matt Newton, http://matthewnewton.com.au/Commercial/People/1/ The Tasmanian Greens today said that if Premier Lara Giddings...
