Tasmanian Times
Politics
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792Get out of Afghanistan
Afghan activist, writer and former politician** Malalai Joya visited Hobart for a day last week with this message for Australia: Get Australian...
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Loal Government reform and the Tasmanian Economy
Saul Eslake, Director, Productivity Growth Program, the Grattan Institute has been asked, along with Jude Munro (former CEO of the Brisbane and...
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Bad News: Murdoch’s Australian and the Shaping of the Nation
Quarterly Essay 43 Bad News: Murdoch’s Australian and the Shaping of the Nation Robert Manne This year has seen unprecedented scrutiny of...
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Dick Adams, who are you, what do you do?
Dick you have been in the Federal Parliament for 20 years, soon you will make a decision to retire. Before you do...
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Tasmania’s Fox Scat Degradation Study. Eco-disaster fear …
[REFERENCE: “Eradicate” Issue 4 – WINTER 2011 a newsletter of the Fox Eradication Program DPIPWE Publication] What’s small, brown and can tell...
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The Green Oration
With planning underway for the 2012 Greens Oration, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the World’s First Greens Party, footage from the past...
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Biofuels – the good, the bad and the ugly
Wood fuel The original biofuel, as used in the discovery of fire and a firm favourite for millions of years. Jargon: ‘Biomass’...
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Electric cars and Tasmania’s future
More than anything else cars represent our freedom and independence. We’ve become so dependent on them we’ll do almost anything to not...
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Systematically Biased Reporting
Although the spin is hard to detect for the average reader, New York Times reportage of Middle East affairs is perniciously biased....
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The Red Queen and the Poet Lorikeet
In contrast to our senior correspondent, Tess Lawrence says the reaction from Julia Gillard to the Glenn Milne story (On TT: HERE)...
