Tasmanian Times
Politics
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1.2KWhite Rabbit in a Snowstorm …
*Pic: Health spending … trend … Pic: Premier Will Hodgman and Treasurer Peter Gutwein spruik the 2016 Budget … • JOHN LAWRENCE,...
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First Day June …
*Pic: The Fagus … First published June 1 Isla MacGregor takes a trip to Mt Field to celebrate the First Day of...
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An Indigenous seventh state: a radical idea from a constitutional conservative
I took Michael Mansell onto the streets of western Sydney this week. I wanted to test public support for his ideas about...
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How is money to fight Ice being spent … ?
LiftStraightUp is a lobby group which has met with Tasmanian and Federal politicians to express its concerns about how money to fight...
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Scathing audit report confirms Tassal breaking state laws
*Pic: Fish farming in Macquarie Harbour, Flickr, Rodtuk WEDNESDAY, May 31 … • Environment Tasmania: A fig leaf on faecal mounds: EPA...
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Democracy is sick – long live democracy
About 25% voters have now abandoned the major parties and we have a political class that is seen by many as being...
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Art of the Bull …
Hobart Town by Knut Bull … from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery The bovine blood-letting has been cancelled ( TT here...
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A Zombie in the White House … ?
*Cartoon: Martyn Turner, used with permission: https://www.facebook.com/martynturnercartoons/ . http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/martyn-turner While Donald Trump’s “Dancing with Swords” world tour of five nations, featuring an...
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‘Government blind to Hobart Airport risks’
*Pic: Hobart Airport from above. Christopher Neugebauer, Flickr I condemn the Federal Government for refusing to order the Australian Federal Police to...
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A Father’s remonstrance to a dead son …
What we would like to hear from the father of Salman Abedin, the father of the Manchester bomber … You who were...
