Politics

The castaways

CAST OFFS Knit one Purl one How many stitches How many tears Dropped Unseen Lines for people Spun and twisted Seas break...

The Labor disconnect

THE media carnival surrounding Mark Latham’s diaries seems pretty much over. Hit pause, then rewind. Beg, borrow or steal Latham’s book and...

Lumps: the interlocked world

THE proposal for a $40 million hotel and apartment complex at 152-156 Collins St and 34 Murray St appears to be a...

The shame of poor Braddon

Hansard … ADJOURNMENT 12 October 2005 Poverty Speech Senator MILNE (Tasmania) (7.41 p.m.) —I rise tonight to note that Anti-Poverty Week will...

What was Jim thinking?

If Tastogether had succeeded decisions on many key issues would be straightforward. For example, there would be no question about the need...

Investors’ advance notice

MARGARETTA POS: Enticingly, the frontispiece, with the heading, Inner Collins Apartments, has a panoramic photograph strapped across the page, with ‘Sheer Inner...

Stirring the Pos

HOBART City Council aldermanic candidate Margaretta Pos is gutsy, glamorous and gracious. Throughout her twenty-year career as a senior journalist, feisty columnist...

10 questions: Eva’s answers

Milne: The Unholy Alliance

Hansard: COMMITTEES Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee Reference 11 October 2005 Speech Senator MILNE (Tasmania) (5.16 p.m.) — I...

Hobart’s unleavened lumps

SPLASHED on the front page of The Mercury yesterday (October 11) is the revelation by Charles Waterhouse of a huge, 11-storey development...