Tasmanian Times
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906Bob’s Tarkine vision …
*Pic: Ted Mead Pic: Jenny Weber How times change … My home town’s newspaper The Advocate has devoted an entire front page...
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Unsustainable Tasmanian waste management
*Pic: The SWS waste dump site … More waste is going to Tasmanian landfill than ever before. The current form of waste...
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Jobs, Sackings, and the Norfolk Island Public Service
*Pic: Image from HERE This letter first appeared in The Norfolk Islander and on Norfolk Online News, 28 May 2016 Dear Editor,...
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Doubts about jobs and growth
*Pic: Opulence of the movers and shakers … International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde (L) shakes hands with Peru President Ollanta...
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Australians care about political finance – and they want to see the system tightened
Debates around breaches – and reform – of Australia’s system of political finance are usually conducted by elected politicians or party officials,...
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Climate Change, the Great Barrier Reef … and Labor
*Pic: Image from HERE I received the below reply in response to bitterly complaining to Bill Shorten after his grand announcement on...
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Tasmanian devil cancer research down a blind alley?
Scientists have been investigating a deadly disease afflicting the Tasmanian devil, a carnivorous marsupial on the verge of extinction due to what...
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The danger to health of cruise ships …
The Guardian has highlighted a major issue raised on Tasmanian Times on March 15 last year. And that is … the subject...
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Cassy O’Connor’s 2016-17 Budget Reply Speech
Madam Speaker, It gives me great pleasure to present the Tasmanian Greens’ fully costed alternative budget for 2016-17. It continues a long-standing...
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No bribes please, we’re corrupt Australians!
Attorney-General George Brandis recently said that federal public administration in Australia had been “… remarkably free of corruption.” In the narrow sense,...
