Tasmanian Times
Politics
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771The Coming Catastrophe
THE global economy is veering towards a recession potentially more debilitating than the financial crisis, the World Bank has warned. And the...
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The Bad Fairy
This is a true story. Ten groups of people who work in forests, use forest products, want to preserve forests sit down...
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SCHOOLS A PRIORITY FOR 2012: Greens
Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown today released a background paper on schools funding and said the Gillard government should commit to introducing...
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Dr Karl’s Flaccid Pill
Karl Stevens
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Who is going to hold this company to account?
I moved into Giblin St, Lenah Valley, opposite K&D’s raw delivery material at the end of 2005. A week after moving in...
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$195m pokie losses. Wilkie: Bryan Green misleads Tasmania; I won’t back down
The Tasmanian Greens today said the latest monthly in arrears figures on pokies losses are yet another tragic expose of Labor’s callous...
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Urgent need for patrol vessel: Brown
Today brings further evidence of the need for Australia to send a patrol boat to the Southern Ocean to monitor Japanese whalers,...
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The Barbarians at the gates of Cygnet
A dangerous axeman, probably deranged, remains at large in the Huon Valley nearly 18 months after a vicious attack on an iconic...
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Are the Barbarians at the gates … (1)
Am I naive in thinking politicians are elected to represent the interests of constituents? And to do so fully and fairly, don’t...
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Are the Barbarians at the gates … (2)
In a classic example of Huon Valley “democracy” at work, council is poised to dictate that the consensual wish of more than...
