Tasmanian Times
Politics
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783West 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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NAB loans to ‘Fat Tony’ Mokbel and the missing files
Tony Mokbel bewigged: is this the worst disguise in history? Contributing editor-at-large for Independent Australia Tess Lawrence reports on the links between...
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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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Police to merge districts, cut senior jobs
Cost-cutting …? A speed camera disguised as a builder’s trailer. Pic: Rob Walls, http://robertwalls.wordpress.com/ Costly … ! The now-mothballed MV Fortescue Tasmania’s...
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Council mergers shot down
Earlier: A Tasmanians for Reform rally at Parliament, here A NEW report on local government reform in the North has knocked council...
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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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Australian prostitution laws helping Korean human traffickers
State government laws endorsing prostitution and brothels are being used by human traffickers to entice young Asian women into the trade, according...
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Draft Amendment to Battery Point and Sullivan’s Cove Planning Schemes
Block bounded by Hampden Road, James St, Knopwood St and Montpelier Retreat Update – 1 July 2012 • The draft amendment was...
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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...
