Tasmanian Times
Politics
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604Rising inequality strengthens case for stronger mining tax: Brown
New figures released today show an alarming trend of rising wealth inequality as the benefits of the mining boom become increasingly concentrated...
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A reply to Dr Murfet
Thank you for your vote of confidence Bob Murfet (In comments on, Is open space dispensable?. I cannot answer for the other...
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Roxon lashes state Labor
The Federal Health Minister’s again calling on the Tasmanian Government to reassess its decision to make savage cuts to its elective surgery...
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Kids in crisis – a local solution
Clarence Council Aspirant, Hans Willink today called for a joint Federal / Local Government takeover of child protection services and foster care...
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Wilderness: A debate
This house believes that untouched wildernesses have a value beyond the resources and other utility that can be extracted from them. Read...
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From within the forest roundtable process …?
Tasmanian Times has received this extract from a letter which purports to be from a participant in the forest roundtable process. We...
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Wilkie/Government poker machine reforms unchanged
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has welcomed the Australian Greens’ continuing interest in poker machine reform. “I’m pleased to see...
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Gillard vows to pursue offshore processing
Asylum seekers will be processed in Australia for the foreseeable future, but Prime Minister Julia Gillard says Labor will continue to pursue...
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A treasured icon of South Hobart
The South Hobart Progress Association Inc. (SHPA Inc.) has, today, lodged a non-conforming tender with the State Government for the purchase of...
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Nothing has changed …
Has anything really changed with the Tasmanian Government’s control over powers they will give inquisitorial processes intended to discover the truth: Deja...
