Tasmanian Times
Politics
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So little honour
AND so we come to one of those times of the year — New Year’s Day and the Queen’s Birthday — when...
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Now for some new media thinking, please
In between there’s been talk of PBL’s share price as leadership shifts to James, and even some reminder of the dramatic mid-’80s...
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Heat and noise
I once owned an ancient fridge. It was the Paul Lennon of fridges: heavy, rounded, thick-panelled and extraordinarily temperamental. It was of...
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1.3KHanging loose
Earth to journalists: a hung parliament is not the most likely outcome RECENTLY I wrote an item for this website with the...
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No sanctuary
IT IS the long unwritten law of the sea that we must help a person in distress on the water. That is...
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Unlawful!
AFTER many moons communing with my soul in Goa, I returned to Tasmania yesterday and immediately caught up with my good friend...
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Drugs: take the politics out
TASMANIA needs a healthy debate about drug policy. But we don’t need the issue to become politicised along party lines. Politicising the...
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Cheeky: Round Two
That’s why the Punch-and-Judy show in Parliament doesn’t really matter all that much. Cheek’s time there is a tale of low farce,...
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The Australian Way
WE are told that it is not the “Australian Way” for organised gangs, structured on racial lines, to beat the living poo...
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More Cheek!
THE first edition of the tell-all political autobiography, Cheeky: Confessions of a Ferret Salesman, has sold out. Author and publisher Bob Cheek...
