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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...

Traffic … post-election

Machiavelli was alive and well in the Hobart Tally Room last Saturday …

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) was an Italian Renaissance writer whose great contribution to history was to give politicians a bad name. He was...

NATION: Despite light at the end of the tunnel, journey ahead will not be smooth …

“Despite the light at the end of the tunnel, the journey ahead will not be smooth.” – Wang-Yi, Chinese Foreign Minister. China’s...

Turnbull’s parliamentary circus …

The Saturday Paper gives one free read a week. This is a brilliant summation of the Turnbull years. The legislative record of...

‘‘Catastrophic’ decreases of Tassie ducks ahead of annual shoot’

*Pic: Last year’s protest … Comment 7: … ‘Photographer, Michelle Powell, who so generously lent her time and talents to document the...

Cheeky: Gunned down by Rene

First published November 2005 MARINUS THEODOOR HIDDING insists on being called Rene with the pronunciation “Reen”; more often than not he gets...

A new piece of Social Infrastructure …

*Satire: Far-Right Failed PM Tony Abbott … satire by DonkeyHotey, flickr First published March 8 Further to a couple of articles on...

‘Free Choice Gaming Program’

Among the myriad of post-election policies being drip fed to the community is, I understand, a ‘Free Choice Gaming Program’ to be...