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Communique – Tasmanian Housing Summit

The Premier Will Hodgman today convened an urgent summit to address Tasmania’s housing shortage. Representatives from 34 peak bodies and key stakeholders...

TTP and the investor-state dispute settlement procedures …

Now that PM Malcolm Turnbull has set his heart on signing the TTP MarkII version, nothing is being said in the media...

Tony Benneworth: ‘Genial giant Koala’

*Pic: Tony’s Facebook page In his cricket-playing days … image from here It was sometime in the early 1970s that Tony Benneworth...

Fixing the Housing Crisis …

*IMAGE: Tumbleweed Houses ~ https://about.homely.com.au/blog/2018/1/12/how-to-prepare-for-tiny-living … First published March 14 Will Premier Will Hodgman be inviting Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to his...

‘Housing crisis is our biggest challenge …’

First published March 13 On Sunday 11 March I announced my candidacy as an Independent for the Legislative Council Seat of Hobart....

Tasmanian nurse recruitment drive draws a blank, unions blame pay, conditions for failure

First published March 14 A taxpayer-funded, three-week trip to the United Kingdom to entice nurses to work in the Tasmanian health system...

The problem record immigration is supposed to solve doesn’t exist

Population is “the everything issue”. It affects all aspects of public policy and our daily lives. It is essential to get population...

Just what are funerals for … ?

Vanessa Goodwin … First published March 12 Funerals serve two purposes, to honour the dead and support the grieving. There can be...

First salvo in a trade war that could lead to a global recession …

First published March 12 President Trump has declared that ‘trade wars are good’ and that ‘they’re easy to win’. This, accompanied by...

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