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1.6KAFL Tasmania chief Scott Wade quits after 16 years in job
Scott Wade has resigned as chief executive of AFL Tasmania after 16 years in the job. Wade’s departure comes ahead of the...
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Notes on the Syrian exodus: ‘Epic in scale, inconceivable until you witness it’
*Pic: Richard Flanagan’s picture of Syrian refugees arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos, January 2016 … Booker prize winner Richard Flanagan...
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The TAC judgement …
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre Incorporated v Secretary, Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (No 2) [2016] FCA 168 Download: 2016FCA0168.pdf
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Basslink update 5/3/2016
Map data ©Google imagery 2016 ©2016 TerraMetrics. https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:171704/zoom:10 The good news is:- We found the fault! (Square symbol in the middle of...
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Turn it Off
*Pic: Rodney Pople’s 2012 Glover Art Prize winner entitled ‘Port Arthur’ … with Martin Bryant … I watch very little television these...
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The Heart of Gunns’ collapse (2)
• Trevor Burdon in Comments: I have feedback on file access from his Honour’s Associate, to paraphrase: – My affidavit (including John...
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Parliament Needs to Focus on the Big Issues
With State Parliament returning on Tuesday after a three month break, I have written to the Leader of the Opposition requesting that...
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Forest follies
*Pic: Image from Sarawak Report, here As you might know by now, I really did appreciate the former Resources Minister Paul Harriss....
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A letter to the PM …
Dear Prime Minister, RE: The establishment of a new Northern Tasmania institution of higher education and training A group of concerned citizens...
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Gaming the system
The late Padraic P McGuiness, editor of Quadrant and scourge of the left – in a rare moment of magnanimity – once...
