Tasmanian Times
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775Party politics in danger of becoming a tyranny of a minority
IT is in the interests of democracy to have free or conscience-voting on moral issues such as same-sex marriage. In Westminster parliaments,...
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Fair’s fair Jacqui Petrusma
We were concerned today to hear Jacqui Petrusma suggest that 1 in 3 men is guilty of domestic violence. People participate in...
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Creating a Future that Works
As an advanced industrial nation, Australia could now have a society with real full-employment and free of poverty. Why have we failed...
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Strings attached: Julian Burnside commissions Tony Abbott-inspired composition
Barrister and human rights advocate, Julian Burnside QC, has commissioned composer Lyle Chan to create a piece of music, “Wind Farm Music...
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Attorney-General Vanessa Goodwin …
Attorney-General Vanessa Goodwin: Please … our children need our help to get harsher sentencing for pedophiles … Hello my name is Anne,...
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Weed Whackers
Monsanto’s lucrative war against invasive species On a Friday evening in January, a thousand people at the annual California Native Plant Society...
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Carbon accounting & FT profitability
As Forestry Tasmania (FT) contemplates its future, a future free of government subsidies, its rolling 3 year production plan for native forest...
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Ta Ann, Forestry Tasmania and the loss-making Take-or-Pay Contracts
*Pic: Heart of Darkness? Matt ( [email protected] , www.matthewnewton.com.au ) Newton’s aerial shot of Ta Ann Southwood, Huon Valley, taken just last...
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Far more beautiful left standing
THERE comes a time when one has to stop looking at one’s own desires and consider what is best for the larger...
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The ‘appalling consultation’ over planning scheme changes …
Single Statewide Planning Scheme will take the local out of local government planning The Tasmanian Conservation Trust is gravely concerned that the...
