Tasmanian Times
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1.3K7HOFM: the ACMA decides
Following the appalling radio interview on April 7th 2016 by 7HOFM breakfast presenter Mick Newell and Mayor Peter Coad ( HERE ),...
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Tall poppies: Yesteryear and today
Australians excel at cutting down tall poppies. Very few know that an Australian might have been the first Secretary-General of the newly-created...
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The King Hit …
In the Mercury (28/July/16) there is a story stating ‘Man Charged over Vic pub brawl’. It is at 10:55 am in the...
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Rolled on smokes: Blow to Ferguson authority
Tasmania’s health minister, Michael Ferguson (above, from his Facebook page), has been dealt a damaging setback by the cabinet, which refused to...
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Tasmanian Federal Liberal’s Bitter Harvest: Parts 1 & 2
With the AEC declaring the Senate results for Tasmania and the Northern Territory on Tuesday 27 July 2016, the loss of the...
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Statement – Completion of Tasmanian Senate Count
*Pic: From Wikipedia HERE, where there is also a profile of Richard Colbeck Ed: … or Eric gets his way … It...
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Will ‘conservative white males’ ever be prepared to act on evidence on tobacco control?
Tasmania still has the highest smoking rates of any state in Australia. Around 1400 Tasmanians have died from tobacco related diseases and...
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Confessions of an amateur political campaigner
In May and June this year I put aside my usual work and worked flat out unpaid organising a campaign for a...
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Hiding behind terrorism
The news lately has been unremittingly bad – one attack after another. Mass murder by truck, mass shootings with guns, killings with...
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Baby Boomers hijack the debate …
THE age of entitlement will not end if baby boomers, in or approaching retirement, keep hijacking public policy debate. With average superannuation...
