Tasmanian Times
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980Audit: Staggering ignorance of health care funding. Diesel rebate: Policy insanity
Some notes on the Commission of Audit recommendations as they affect health … In brief, the audit report reveals a staggering ignorance...
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State politics in the raw: The Born-to-Rule mentality. The Spending …
ABC Local Radio’s Leon Compton meets six of the seven LegCo candidates for the seat of Huon outside Cygnet Library 9-10am, Wednesday...
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My Twitter dialogue with Sam McQuestin. Robocalls … and Will
Sam McQuestin with Premier Will Hodgman in MP-aspirant days I had a Twitter engagement with Sam McQuestin last night. A rare event...
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Last Rites for MIS
News reports have reported the sale of Gunns’ assets to New Forests for $330 million. The sale involves only the freehold assets...
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Andrew Wilkie, Diary of a Manus Island guard: ‘They went into tribal mode’
• Andrew Wilkie, Diary of a Manus Island guard: ‘They went into tribal mode’ The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has...
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The Gunns have fallen silent. Anchorage Capital profits at Tasmanians’ expense
The Gunns have finally fallen silent on Anzac Day in a dramatic conclusion to this long running saga. Friday’s Australian notes that...
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Chicanery and political deception of the highest order
The Hollow Men, by T.S. Eliot We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw....
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Nyrstar Port Pirie smelter transformation … implications for Hobart?
An agreement on a $385 million transformation of the Port Pirie lead smelter looks to be almost finalised, with operator Nyrstar confirming...
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RHH: A tragedy on all fronts
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, said that he is disappointed and frustrated that the rebuild of the Royal Hobart Hospital,...
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Evil Was Only a Visitor
Written in the weeks after the tragedy … April 28, 1996: the staff at the Fox and Hounds are just a few...
