Tasmanian Times
State
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Labor’s public service blowout
Mark Baker Examiner THE price of running the State’s bureaucracy has increased by $800 million since the Labor Government came into power...
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Bad planning is bad politics
Peter Tucker The government has only got itself to blame over the latest furore with a development proposal for Hobart’s waterfront. Read...
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Six weeks, but hey, who’s counting
Nostradamus By now, you will have gathered that I have very strong feelings about Parliamentary reform. The Hare-Clark system has served this...
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The public forum at Circular Head
Charles and Claire Gilmour As a side issue we also mentioned that our member for Braddon, Bryan Green had said to us...
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Pipelines and Bartlett’s Future
Peter Henning SEVERAL DAYS ago senior journalist with The Age, Kenneth Davidson, dropped a bombshell that has been completely ignored by the...
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Who wins in the pay parity claim?
Alex Wadsley THE BIGGEST winner out of the Tasmanian Public Service pay parity claim will be the Federal Government. For a traditional...
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Tamargate
Geoff Smedley NO! IT’S not only the Murray this time, but the Tamar river in Launceston that is suffering the same serious...
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Who’d be a politician?
Bob Hawkins I’m not generous in the respect I hold for politicians. For years I have argued that, generally (though there have...
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Democracy for “Democratists”
Peter and Lesley Brenner There is good news: We can have “more democracy” – “Binding Direct Democracy” in fact. And there is...
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Ethics Inquiry or Quick fix Sham?
Isla MacGregor Whistleblowers Tasmania In Dr Warwick Raverty’s recent Open Letter to members of the Joint Select Committee on Ethical Conduct he...
