Tasmanian Times
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Spinning Bartlett’s ALP Conference Speech
BOB BURTON David Bartlett’s speech on Sunday to the ALP State Conference — promising an expansion in irrigation schemes, touting wind, wave...
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Pembroke: War of Technology
JAMES CROTTY, MR James Crotty, Independent Labour candidate for Pembroke, has taken the standard of Tasmanian election campaigning to new heights over...
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How I was muzzled at The Examiner
TOM ELLISON, Stockbroker and Journalist An interesting season is winter. The heat pump in my house expired the day the thermometer first...
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What a ludicrous promise
PETER Who’s going to sue Premier David Bartlett over his ludicrous promise to immediately improve road safety – but only if we...
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Tainted philanthropy
RICK PILKINGTON Communities have deep meanings for people. People long for their communities to retain the values that have sustained them. This...
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Bust Me Gall and Break Me Neck – Patsy Adam Smith 1968
via Dr DAVID OBENDORF PATSY ADAM-SMITH It seemed to me when I came to Tasmania still in my teens that my lack...
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On Fox, Shit and Post Modern Tasmanian Social Pathology
RICHARD BUTLER There is a social pathology in Tasmania. It is evidenced by a small number of inter-generationally repeated behaviours. 1. The...
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Unconscious corruption: Part 1
BUCK THOR EMBERG. B.T. Emberg is a PhD History Candidate at the University of Tasmania When living in China, I became painfully...
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Democracy has died and nobody noticed
BARNABY DRAKE There was a time, not so long ago, when you could express an opinion, go to a rally, speak to...
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These stupid pollies deserve the fate of the Dodo
JOHN HAYWARD The first thing to understand about the Protection of Agricultural Land Policy is that it is no such thing. It...
