Tasmanian Times
Politics
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850Conflict of interest: The cancer within our public life
My earlier piece, (A way forward for Tasmanian politics, HERE) identified independent political representatives as a possible cure for the ailments of...
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Notes for a kind taxpayer
This article is for you the Kind Taxpayer. You are being required to support mental health even more this financial year than...
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Tasmania: The poppy cutting isle
Barbara Etter Since the formation of Tasmania’s independent corruption watchdog, it has been plagued by silence and secrecy. At the formation of...
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Ports not as profitable, but the directors are doing OK. Labor and top jobs …
The Mercury 24 Nov 2011 The state’s port operator recorded a 67 per cent slump in profits last year. The TasPorts annual...
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Casino pokie losses grow
The Tasmanian Greens today said that new figures on gambling losses in Tasmania created an unassailable case for requiring Federal Hotels to...
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An eye on the future
Gunns feels the heat, HERE Companies can be left floundering in the wake of changing social values. [WHO] Katherine Teh-White, managing director...
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Bizarre, paranoid … or what?
From my vantage point at the southern end of the Pork Barrel Bypass (aka Kingston Bypass), I can see a short section...
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Arts vs politics: We haven’t got the balance right
Image, from HERE AS BEFITS a man who values his poetic vocation as highly as his political ideals, President Michael D Higgins...
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Suppressing Nonviolent Dissent
Veterans assaulted with truncheons, women dragged through the streets by their hair, grandmothers pepper sprayed in the face, peaceful protestors bludgeoned while...
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Barbara Etter: We need you …
Bob Gordon and Brian Green in a Forestry photo TT finance analyst John Lawrence penned this despairing addendum in comments to this...
