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Council: three-way fight

DOUBTLESS you will read in some shallow mainstream effort that Alderman Darlene Haigh is in danger of losing her seat on account...

Troubled Spirit and The Truth

HAG: THE shambolic disaster that is Spirit 3 is a direct re-run of the Richard Butler farce. Make no mistake. Strategic leaking...

Council … a verdict

THIS is just a shortish piece to update my doubtless feeble attempts to anticipate what might happen in this year’s Hobart Council...

A lesson from Brisbane

A FLYING visit to Brisbane this week for the 2005 OPSO Media Awards enabled me to spend several hours on the Brisbane...

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...

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

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...