Tasmanian Times
Politics
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3.9KRelease of Madeleine Habib Amid Hostage Release News
Madeleine Habib, the prominent Tasmanian activist and volunteer, is safely on her way home after being released from Israeli detention following the...
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Boyer Mill Power Standoff Resolved After Negotiations
The Boyer paper mill’s near-death experience with Aurora Energy highlights the precarious balance between commercial imperatives and economic survival in Tasmania’s manufacturing...
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Cartoon Competition Winner, August – September
Many thanks to everyone who entered! Here is the winner who will [again] take home $200 for his prize winning entry and...
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Abetz Dismisses Expert Warning; Stadium Proceeding Over TPC’s ‘Opinion’
The debate over the Macquarie Point AFL stadium has escalated with the Government’s release of its response to the Tasmanian Planning Commission’s...
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Tasmania Cannot Afford a $3.5 Billion Stadium for the AFL
This is just madness. Even Rob Sitch and Utopia could not come close to this. Andrew Wilkie in parliament today criticised the...
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TAFE Arts Crisis – Fees Skyrocket, Exodus Feared
The decision by the Minister for Skills and Jobs, Felix Ellis, to redirect TasTAFE course subsidies was defended as an essential move...
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George Demands Full Stadium Cost Disclosure
Independent MHA for Franklin, Peter George, has called for a full and frank disclosure of all costs associated with the proposed Macquarie...
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Our Place Demands Cost Transparency for Stadium
The advocacy group Our Place have released 20 critical questions concerning the rapidly escalating and allegedly hidden costs of the proposed Macquarie...
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Ignoring Experts – Stadium Ignorance, a Trump-esque Folly
Ignorance is Bliss The macro and the micro. Watching Trump addressing world leaders last week at the United Nations, attacking and dismissing...
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Crisis Looms Over Mental Health Services
The impending closure of the Hobart Clinic, southern Tasmania’s sole private inpatient mental health facility, has triggered a significant public and political...
