Tasmanian Times
Politics
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Suu Kyi to spend elections under house arrest
HLA HLA HTAY, Rangoon, August 12, 2009 BURMA’S democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been ordered to stay under house arrest...
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Dalai dumped. Tas Uni’s $30m under threat?
ABC ONLINE Australian Greens leader Bob Brown has questioned whether the Dalai Lama has been denied an Australian university honour because of...
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China’s spin offensive
ALAN KOHLER, Business Spectator China’s demented behaviour over Stern Hu and Rebiya Kadeer is starting to become quite disturbing. You wonder, in...
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In denial, or incompetent… ?
PETER GUTWEIN, Shadow Treasurer, Tuesday 11 August, 2009 What standards does the Premier expect of his Ministers? · The Treasurer has failed...
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How the Mercury helped Vanessa …
Dr KEN HART In Legislative Council elections, each candidate has a strict spending limit $12,000. The purpose of this limit is to...
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Build it … and they won’t come…
AUSTRALIAN THE federal government’s “build it and they will come” mentality to its ambitious $43billion national broadband network has fallen on deaf...
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A blunt instrument, but the next EMRS poll will be very interesting
Dr KEVIN BONHAM Thanks pilko. However the problem with trying to predict that Labor will be “thrown out” is easily enough explained....
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How many times will Saul Eslake be bothered to spell it all out?
JONATHAN MALES, A response to: Exit young Tasmanians I left Tasmania in 1992 aged 29 and have lived in the UK (mainly...
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Whatever happened to the democratic principal of one voice for all?
STEPHAN So, $10,000 dollars to have a chat with the Federal Treasurer. $2,000 a plate to talk with members of our State...
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Selling ALP indulgences
ALAN KOHLER Business Spectator Last week I bumped into a government relations manager of a major company who paid $10,000 to attend...
