Tasmanian Times
Politics
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909Tasmania, I wish you well … Goodbye
#7. Strange, that, seeing that the Meander Valley Council unanimously passed a series of amendments to the PAL Act during their last...
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Slow Death by Rubber Duck
Book Review – Slow Death by Rubber Duck ‘In Slow Death by Rubber Duck, we argue that there is no separation between...
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Toxins in our water …
Much of the antagonism expressed towards current forest practices is directed towards its effect upon water quality, particularly in the catchments, where...
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CFMEU quits forest council ‘sideshow’
THE forestry union has pulled out of the Forests and Forest Industry Council of Tasmania, slamming it as a “sideshow”. The forestry...
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The mucky country: a nation of spivs, shonks and con artists
Now that the political platitudes about good ol’ Aussie mateship have been packed away until next Anzac Day, time for a cold...
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Read!
We know life wasn’t meant to be easy, but were the dangers supposed to be quite this numerous? http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/newscience/prebirth-phthalate-exposure-associated-with-childs-behavior-problems/ ********************* May an...
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Advance Australia … Where?
The Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott is claiming that Australia’s population needs to stay under 36 million. Compared with our current 22...
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Government dysfunction
Here’s the Big Picture #78 that looks across the news at patterns of government dysfunction, notes what’s missing from the much vaunted...
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Barry blames the banks, not the Greens …
THE rise and fall of Forest Enterprises Australia is a very sad story of a great Tasmanian company brought undone by callous...
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Invasion of the theatre bogans
They are the women who shout ”get your kit off” when Teddy Tahu Rhodes sings for Opera Australia. They are the inglorious...
