Tasmanian Times
Politics
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Hamlet and Costello
VISITORS to this site may recall an essay I wrote a few weeks ago on Peter Costello. It was a critical piece...
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The party line
THESE are interesting times for our western democracy. We are constantly reminded how important it is, we even bomb other countries to...
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The failed experiment
It was a bad mistake to slash the size of State Parliament to that of little more than a country council. It’s...
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The colonial power
THE situation in West Papua is concerning. The Australian Government should be strongly protesting to the Indonesian government about the human rights...
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We need a change of view
A Window: The Sunday Times reports that council workers in Harare each week find up to twenty corpses of new-born babies in...
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910Until it’s gone
Earlier this month, Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands was identified as one of 20 locations around the world where it was...
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World’s best (Cabinet) practice
What the Libs reckon: Media Release WILL HODGMAN, MHA State Liberal Leader Wednesday April 5, 2006 New Labor Cabinet Liberal Leader Will...
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The playing field has potholes
In response to Ald. Ruzicka (TT, Here, and Mercury letters 3 April), it wasn’t just my fellow candidate, Elise Archer who spent...
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The voice
HEAR that? That’s the sound of a gravitationally-challenged female of the species ending her song. And whilst the tune may not be...
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Property rights
IF the right to own property is the “fundamental principle on which pluralist democracies are based” (Felmingham, Opinion, “Sunday Tasmanian”, 19/3/06), then...
