Tasmanian Times
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966NATION: There are Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) produces a monthly set of unemployment figures based on an internationally sanctioned definition of unemployment. To...
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So, you want my vote? An open letter to all politicians
But what makes you think you’re worthy of it? Here is a brief list of why you’re not getting it: The biggest...
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Turnbull campaign proves a fizza
The PM’s “Turnbullian” master stroke, as his early election gambit was hailed by Annabel Crabb, of Canberra’s press claque, barely a month...
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Doubly Disillusioned
Now that a double dissolution election is upon us it is timely to return to the notion I suggested last year that...
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Peter Brohier’s rebuttal …
*Pic: ABC’s pic of the Spirits … Politas – Can we hit the Brohier mute button? It has recently come to Peter...
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Peter Gutwein’s 2016-17 Budget Speech
Madam Speaker, This is the third Budget I have handed down as Treasurer, and I can confidently say that under the Hodgman...
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A horror budget for patients
Deep, deep behind the back-on-track guff, the state government has hidden the details of its ongoing evisceration of public hospitals. You will...
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Huon Valley Guessing Games: Huon waits on the real umpire’s call
Photo: In the spot reserved for Mayor Peter Coad in Huon Valley Council’s car park, Huonville On at least two occasions, someone...
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Damning findings on training company spark calls for Tasmanian Liberals to return donations
The Tasmanian Liberal Party is under pressure to return a $23,500 political donation after an investigation by the Australian Competition and Consumer...
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Stop the nonsense Mr Turnbull
NBN Bust! A brief, grainy, almost noir, news item, with not much action and an eerily silent soundtrack screening repeatedly on national...
