Tasmanian Times
Politics
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860Erin Brockovich joins campaign for review of pesticide laws
THE Federal Government is under renewed pressure to protect Australians and the environment from pesticides banned overseas for years. More than a...
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100,000 rally to stop live exports
TO THE MERCURY Dear Editor, The Ban Live Exports rally at Parliament House in Hobart on Saturday, June 18, attracted an estimated...
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Happy birthday to Fleet Street’s ranters
The inimitable Gentlemen Ranters site – described by The Times as “a brilliant compendium of reminiscences of the great days of Fleet...
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Tasmania is eradicating its cryptic fox population. We’d scrap FEP, say Libs
According to retiring Leader of Government Business in the Legislative Council the strategy of ‘precautionary baiting’ is working a treat…the noose is...
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A handful of thoughts before the dust
I’ve done outside jobs: journalism. I learned not to mistake a journalist for a god-thief. Journalists’ theft is a very different kind...
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The dangers of bone-headed beliefs
Surely it’s time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies. Not necessarily on the forehead; I’m a...
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Tasmania must push for ban on big tobacco bully tactics
The Tasmanian Greens today called on Minister for Health, Michelle O’Byrne, to detail the Labor party position on an introduction of a...
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Political Monkey Business
Tamar Devil
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Tasmanian Greens establish e-Petition for Container Deposit Legislation
Tasmanian Greens member Phillip Bingley has introduced an e-Petition calling for Container Deposit Legislation as a matter of urgency, following the lead...
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Space for Peace
In early 2007 China hit one of its own satellites in space with a missile. It was a neat bit of target...
