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No satisfactory explanation

I SHARE the view of the editorialist in the Saturday Mercury (4/6) that parliamentary committee hearings are an important part of the...

My new Best Friend

Saturday Mercury columnist Wayne Crawford noted the wondrous warmth between Tasmanian Labor Premier Paul Lennon and Prime Minister John Howard last week....

So, who is a Tasmanian Aborigine?

Curiouser and curiouser

The Mercury: Bacon ready to face lie detector In Their Own Words: Peg Putt MHA GREENS OPPOSITION LEADER Thursday, 9 JUNE 2005...

No forestry worker will ever lose his job

YOU’VE HEARD the mantra again and again and again. And again, and again and again … His eyes flash defiance as he...

Ashes to Ashes

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Mr Lennon, Mr Scott and the Public Sphere

Read more here: In Their Own Words The Mercury report: Lennon gets advice over Bacon pickle Interpretation: We’re at Response Number 1:

Poll … a premature hanging?

Reports in The Mercury: Poll tips dead heat and The Examiner, based on the most recent EMRS poll suggest the Lennon Government...

The loss of democracy in Tasmania

The council and the mill (2)

DEAR Martin, General manager and Mayor, In your response to our public queries you make an important assertion “A development of the...