Tasmanian Times
Politics
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721Support for council mergers growing, says TFR
New EMRS figures released yesterday show nearly three-quarters or some 73 per cent of Tasmanians believe there is a need to merge...
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If Italy Can Do It …
If there’s one thing I learned in Government, it’s that there is usually a simple answer to every problem. Justice? No problem...
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857
Blackwood, the TFIA and funding
I attended the TFIA community information session in Huonville this week in the hope of promoting my blackwood growers cooperative proposal and...
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762
Huon Valley Guessing Games: Politics of division
Politics of division and discrimination — a consequence of an executive decision by “non-political” mayor Robert Armstrong — surfaced again at Monday...
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874
ANZ Bank urged not to throw good money after bad
Members of Pulp the Mill, Friends of the Tamar Valley and TAP Into a Better Tasmania will gather outside the Launceston branch...
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670
Cat control urgently needed
The Tasmanian Greens today called on the Minister for Primary Industries, Bryan Green, to include provision for proclamation of the long delayed...
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875
Tote vote splits Greens
GREENS MP Kim Booth split with party colleagues and crossed the floor of State Parliament yesterday to vote against the sale of...
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700
Bob Brown faces privileges committee inquiry over Wotif donor
GREENS Leader Bob Brown faces a possible investigation by the Senate’s powerful privileges committee over an allegation he used his parliamentary position...
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Expert predicts new mining in the Tarkine could result in a tenfold increase in Devil roadkill
In a report in the Canberra Times, former UTAS environmental scientist Professor Hamish McCallum has suggested that roading for new mining could...
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Towards a fairer mining tax
The Australian Greens’ efforts to secure a fairer mining tax have so far resulted in another $140 million for the public purse,...
