Tasmanian Times
Politics
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Break away from the rigid caucus mentality
Peter Henning Andrew, I welcome your candidacy. It is essential we break away from the rigid caucus mentality which places personal political...
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Labour, Labor’s rigid tribalism
Polly Toynbee Guardian Nose pegs aren’t enough. We will need smelling salts, too. As voter despair deepens, Labour needs to ditch its...
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Firestorm (3): The culture wars
Professor Clive Hamilton Crikey The fierce debate over the role of fuel-reduction burning in preventing bushfires has exposed a deep divide in...
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Firestorm (2): The politics of bushfires
Mark Poynter Online Opinion LAST month, a Melbourne suburban newspaper carried a large advertisement placed by the Victorian Greens (endorsed by Greens...
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Firestorm (1): Replicate pre clearfell ecologies
Ian Johnston LOOKING at photos of the Victorian forests before the devastating black Saturday firestorm I observed that what exploded with such...
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Chief Scientist: an unwelcome precedent
David Obendorf HAVE YOU seen the advertisement for the Tasmanian Government Chief Scientist advertised this weekend? This is, I understand, an attempt...
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785Plantations Cause Fire Risk: remind Bartlett to acknowledge this
NeoConned THE Premier has carefully avoided mentioning plantation companies in his suite of measures for handling bush-fire death traps, as reported in...
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Pesticides: The spraying forum
Pete Godfrey ON Thursday night 26th March there will be a public meeting and forum on Pesticide use in Tasmania. As you...
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Going Bush …
Philip Quaile JUST WHEN you’re settling down to some nice Sunday afternoon tea, there’s nothing worse than a bout of apoplexy. ‘Going...
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New World in the Morning?
Nostradamus However, I am interested in the notion of community and remain extremely impressed by the way Tasmanians rallied to help the...
