Tasmanian Times
National
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776West Papua’s tragic month
It has been a tragic month for the West Papuan people with a large number of shooting incidents by unknown assailants occurring...
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Hospital budgets to be cut by new pricing scheme
Less than she would have hoped … Tasmanian Health Minister Michelle O’Byrne Tasmania’s public hospitals stand to lose up to $80.7 million...
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Maybe commonsense will eventually prevail here too
In the week that the carbon tax came into force, the Australian Government has released a survey commissioned last year to assess...
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Forester accuses Institute of Foresters of skewing forests report
A member of the Institute of Foresters of Australia (IFA) has criticised the organisation for misrepresenting his work in its critique of...
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This is the way the world ends …
The Hollow Men (1925), a poem by T. S. Eliot (Wikipedia here) We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men...
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Back off Walsh, says Brown
A TAX Office lawsuit seeking $37 million in back taxes from MONA founder David Walsh could cast a shadow over plans to...
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WikiLeaks exposes Syria files
Bassar Al-Assad. Guardian picture WIKILEAKS has begun publishing a vast database of 2.4 million emails it says involve the Syrian government and...
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South Korean whaling plan condemned
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has condemned a South Korean move to begin whaling and has instructed Australia’s top diplomat in Seoul to...
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Truly stupefying …
NOTE TO READERS: The story below is not satire. Call it irony, a plea for a more compassionate society – in fact...
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The Future of Hobart’s rail line
Pic: Mathew Sharp Late June saw Federal Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese hand over $50 million to the State Government for the clean-up...
