Tasmanian Times
Politics
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771Mercury’s bottom line at risk
THE backlash against News Ltd’s plans to edit the Mercury interstate could cost the Tasmanian newspaper dearly, says Damon Thomas, a Hobart...
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680
Australia’s National Park sounds good to me
The West Australian Premier (a Liberal, recently installed) lately made a now famous comment that Tasmania is the nation’s national park (On...
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Clubs Australia media blitz irresponsible
The Tasmanian Greens today called on State and Federal Members of Parliament to resist the vested interest onslaught by Clubs Australia’s new...
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Taste blowout shouldn’t be taxpayer burden
Costs are set to sky rocket for the delivery of the Taste Festival this year, and alternatives for funding must be sought,...
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Criminalising gay parenting
The Tasmanian Liberals want to decriminalise altruistic surrogacy for everyone except same-sex couples. Under their proposed amendments to State Government surrogacy reform,...
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And all the time I thought we were living in a democracy
The history of this “so called” Protection of Agricultural Land Policy certainly caused a deal of uneasiness when being debated in both...
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What happens when a rogue company is given too many grants
Over the past 20 years millions of dollars have been spent on propping up the Timber industry in Tasmania. Some sources put...
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Don’t take the ministries Nick (2)
Kevin Kiernan, a bedrock founder of environmentalism, first publicly raised a loss of faith of in Green political philosophy and direction in...
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Founding fathers turn on urban Greens
Two founding fathers of the Greens say the split between the old-school environmentalists and the new generation of ideologically driven urban activists...
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Little wonder Tassie lacks clout
TASMANIA has been running on cut-price democracy for the past 13 years. Ever since Labor leader the late Jim Bacon and Liberal...
