Tasmanian Times
National
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844Wilkie urges Tasmanian Parliament to deliver on Pokies Reform
Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, today voiced his support for a Tasmanian bill proposing to place $1 bet limits on poker...
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Adam Bandt’s maiden speech to Parliament. Forget the focus groups …
I am enormously proud to be here as the first member of the Australian Greens elected at a general election and especially...
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Bounties on Tasmanian foxes
In January 2002 the then Director of the Tasmanian Conservation Trust, Michael Lynch called on Tasmanian Government to consider a bounty on...
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Over $18m lost on pokies for the month of August
The Tasmanian Greens today revealed that over the last eight months this year $124, 256, 821 has been lost on poker machines,...
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A loan, a loan, all, all alone …
Freshwater shuts Samoa pulp mill permanently The Times-Standard Posted: 09/28/2010 09:25:57 AM PDT The owners of the Samoa Pulp mill have announced...
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Elections, corporations and forest practices
It can, be argued that the people who voted for the Greens, and in Tasmania for Independent Andrew Wilkie, in the August...
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First do no harm
Tasmanian Times poster boy and MP Senator Brown has had his proposal to legalise euthanasia shredded as thoroughly as any of his...
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Chemical find in creek prompts drinking water tests
Chemical find in creek prompts drinking water tests Peter Ker September 30, 2010 A VICTORIAN water authority will conduct a special round...
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The Thin Parliament?
In the 17th century in England parliaments had wonderful descriptive names, the Long and the Short parliaments the Rump and Barebones parliaments...
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Gunns sets pulp mill time frame
The timber company Gunns predicts processes will be finalised soon that would allow the start of construction of its northern Tasmanian pulp...
