Tasmanian Times
Politics
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Magistrate job axed
Sue Neales Mercury THE former head of Tasmania’s public service, Linda Hornsey, personally intervened last year to stymie the appointment of a...
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TCC probe call
Paul Harriss MLC MR Builders and Tasmanian taxpayers may have been hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket through the TCC...
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Dozers get the OK on mill
Mercury ENVIRONMENT Minister Peter Garrett has approved the next stage of the controversial Gunns pulp mill in Tasmania. Read more here
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Tasmanian neo-liberalism – A new vision for terra nullius
Peter Henning It is a process, as Australia’s pre-eminent human rights lawyer, Julian Burnside, has said, which enables language “to smuggle uncomfortable...
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Tasmania and the risks to Rudd
Mike Bolan Overall, the big problem for the Federal Labor party is that this project exposes them in ways that are pretty...
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Some simple questions, Premier
Cheshire Are these reports wrong? Or is Mr Kons unable to deal with his own staff issues in-house? Why were the Premier’s...
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Lennon slide
Sue Neales Mercury FEWER than one-third of all Tasmanians are satisfied with the performance of Premier Paul Lennon. A new political poll...
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Love and marriage
Wayne Morgan Online Opinion While criticising the Rudd Government for opposing the “ceremonial aspects” of the ACT’s civil partnership law, Carol Johnson...
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A shocking cut
Jane MacDonald Save Ralphs Bay Inc “If all the Marine Protected Areas recommended in the Draft Report had gone ahead, this immensely...
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Rudd’s scale of relevancy
Karl Stevens Australia 2020 participants Check Rudds ‘smart’ list and do the maths? Notice how few Tasmanians made it to Canberra? Either...
