Tasmanian Times
Politics
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839High Farce
In September 1938 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew back to England brandishing an agreement and declaring “peace for our time”, oft...
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Green groups protest, Lara lashes Libs, Farmers wary
• Miranda Gibson: Still Wild Still Threatened Protesters abseil from Parliament House Canberra in a call for real forest protection. Two conservationists...
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$276M forests deal. Where to from here? The Naked Truth …
• MONDAY: • The Age: Tasmania in $274m forests deal • The Australian: Giddings faces Greens ire on forests package • Mercury:...
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I hope I’ll be an example to others
Tasmania’s Deputy Premier, Bryan Green, has been disqualified from driving for three months after pleading guilty in the Magistrates Court in Hobart...
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You’ve got to be joking
Nostradamus with apologies I am extremely grateful for the feedback and encouragement I have received about my previous musings (HERE) and I...
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Fire and humans
Professor of Forest Ecology David Bowman from the University of Tasmania in Hobart, talks about human involvement with fire and its consequences....
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Plantations up in biomass smoke
EXCLUSIVE: Great Southern Plantations receiver McGrathNicol is under attack over the foreign sell-off of 252,000ha of farm land. And the chief executive...
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The Politics of Tasmania: How to Lose Friends and Ostracise People
The political shenanigans that have been prevalent in Tasmanian politics prior to and since the last State election have led me to...
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The Harry Holgate Book or a Wikipedia indulgence … ?
Information about former Tasmanian Premier Harry Holgate is scarce. He was born in Maitland, New South Wales in 1933 and died of...
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Muddling through … ?
Hi Peter. Regional planning processes in Australia, as Oliver would know, have been fairly accurately described as pragmatic incrementalism or muddling through....
