Tasmanian Times
Politics
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797Action on marine plastic needed
ACTION ON MARINE PLASTIC NEEDED The Tasmanian Greens today called on the Environment Minister to ensure the protection of Tasmania’s marine creatures...
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Gunns’ 2011 Financial Statements
After the market closes, it’s a Friday, here’s Gunns’ 2011 Financial Statements: HERE: 120 pages of it … analysis please! Market Wrap,...
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Let’s Ban Political Editorials by Out of Touch Editors
Is the editor of the Examiner, Martin Gilmour, giving up smoking? Or has he always been that grumpy? And reactionary? And anti-Green?...
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Terrorists, sex and violence: cowards ruled, heroes overruled
In this confronting and compelling two-part essay, contributing editor-at-large, Tess Lawrence, provokes the argument that the relationship between suicide bombers, sex and...
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Harvard’s Kindness Pledge
This year Harvard freshmen started what administrators hope will be a new tradition: they signed a pledge promising to uphold values tied...
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Did defaulting rescue Argentina and could it work for Greece?
In 2001 Argentina announced it was going to restructure its international debt, thereby triggering the biggest default in history. Twelve months later...
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Get Arthur-Pieman tracks closure on track
The Tasmanian Greens today called for the Environment Minister to ensure that the recommendations made in the Parks and Wildlife Service’s Arthur...
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Brown condemns Japan’s blood money
The reported decision of Japan to spend $27 million of public money on killing whales in Antarctica this summer must rate as...
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Slash and burn in Tasmanian Polytechnic?
Hag has been told there are going to be big cuts in Tasmanian Polytechnic (and possibly mergers). It will affect all departments...
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Red Zone Baghdad
My War in Iraq Colonel Marcus Fielding “I was there at the start and Marcus was there at the end. Because of...
