Tasmanian Times
Politics
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902Professor Stewart didn’t get much right
“There is a strong push to stop all logging of native forests, but is this really justified from the point of view...
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Qantas flies again
Qantas planes are set to return to the skies on Monday after Fair Work Australia ordered an end to the bitter industrial...
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Believing everything… knowing very little
The Tasmanian Fox Program has relied on exaggeration, mis-interpretation and fabrication to publicly declare that Tasmania had a wild fox population. ‘The...
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Glaciers in Southwest China Feel the Brunt of Climate Change
ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2011) — Significant increases in annual temperatures are having a devastating affect on glaciers in the mountainous regions of...
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Where is the balance?
I take strong exception to this biased story: HERE: Cycling healthy or risky? Watch it and see for yourself! Where is the...
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The anger at those health cuts. A GP’s view
Tasmanian Greens have completed a fact-finding tour of the state’s three main hospitals, to hear directly how the announced health budget cuts...
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Another three Diggers die
An attacker wearing an Afghan army uniform has shot dead three Australian soldiers and wounded seven others in Afghanistan. An Afghan interpreter...
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Brown calls on Gillard and Abbott to haul Qantas’ Joyce into line
Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown today called on Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to demand Qantas management get...
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Why euphemism is integral to modern warfare
The arms trade, and the UK’s role within it, relies on business-speak and foggy language, writes Will Self. One of my favourite...
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Looming GST threat gives new urgency to state tax reform
The Tasmanian Greens are concerned that the looming threat of a cut in the state’s GST allocation added new urgency to the...
