Tasmanian Times
Politics
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905Dear James Packer: What about the dead Crown pokies player … ?
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, is disappointed James Packer only told half the story about pokies during his speech to...
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SIEV X: It’s time for a Royal Commission
It’s time for the truth to allay, or confirm, our fears about SIEV X It’s 10 years since the SIEV X disaster...
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Logging must stop. Nick McKim. Paul O’Halloran’s Notice of Motion. Biomass burning …
The government agreement to stop logging in Tasmania’s wild forests is clear: logging must stop in the 430,000ha that the Prime Minister...
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Make voting compulsory
The Local Government elections are just about over and again we half-talk about compulsory voting. The question is … why hasn’t it...
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Can Burnet blame the state Greens?
The question has to be asked: Was Helen Burnet’s failure to become Lord Mayor of Hobart because of the State Greens MPs’...
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Elective surgery health cuts: the paradox of austerity
It has been evident for the last three years that the State needs a broad and fearless review of all Government programs...
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Property industry’s confidence at rock bottom
New figures released by the Property Council of Australia (Tasmania) today revealed the confidence of the Tasmanian property industry is the lowest...
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Forestry didn’t get it all wrong
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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This is a racket
I have been reading the correspondence in Tasmanian Times on the subject of Tas Ports and Mr Rolley (HERE) and this has...
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What Arab Revolutions?
“Biggest international news story of the moment is the outbreak of rebellions – ‘revolution’ is too presumptuous a word at this stage...
