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640The General takes command …
Former defence force chief and Vietnam veteran officially named by Tony Abbott as Governor-General Quentin Bryce’s successor General Peter Cosgrove has been...
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The Rule Of Law – Tasmanian Style
Picture: Bob Burton “The prerequisite for everything political is moral. Politics should be ethics put into practice.” Vaclav Havel. “The ends justify...
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A Wave of Unreason
“A wave of unreason” is a phrase author Edgar Wallace used in a 1920s Gothic horror story, intriguingly entitled “The Black Abbott”....
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Big Coal’s annus horribilis
2013 was a bad, bad year for Big Coal. If the coal industry’s PR dream is for a stream of exuberant articles...
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Barnett Government’s Shark Cull Program delivers first cruel and barbaric fatality …
In the early hours of yesterday morning the fisherman hired to perform Barnett’s dirty work of killing protected species, went out to...
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No Federal Police action on Gay
THE AUSTRALIAN Federal Police has declined to go after disgraced former Gunns chairman John Gay by launching a proceeds of crime action....
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The Pulp Mill Follies
This week the Tasmanian parliament will debate, and presumably pass, the Pulp Mill Assessment Amendment Bill 2014 – the so-called ‘doubts removal’...
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If the amendments get passed …
Just for any legally minded masochists amongst us, I have drafted a copy of the PMAA 2007 as it would appear if...
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The Dictatorship of Majority Government
Senator Christine Milne on Minority vs Majority Government in Tasmania … The Deal is done in the Back Room and deilvered in...
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A new Devil: Cost benefit analysis
Perhaps I am just becoming a peevish old man. I don’t think so because I view life as ‘pretty good’ and wake...
