Tasmanian Times
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888This is how empires collapse
This is how empires collapse: one complicit participant at a time. April 23, 2014 “ICH” – “Of Two Minds” – Before an...
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Historic rally in Tasmania’s Upper Florentine Valley
World Heritage Forests In Danger Almost 2000 people have rallied today in the Upper Florentine Valley to defend World Heritage listed forests....
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Lest We Forget indeed!
Only 8 years before the ANZAC’s set off for Gallipoli, these Aboriginals were in Police Custody, 1906. Their crime was fighting against...
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Selling state assets is ideology rather than logic
Pic: State asset: Hydro’s Gordon dam Privatisation: Broader issues Privatising public assets is back on the agenda with Treasurer Hockey reigniting the...
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What the MLCs say ….
• Liz Smith Members of the Legislative Council, Tasmania’s house of review, should not be directed or influenced by political parties in...
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The Lives of Brian
For six years I sat within meters of the late Senator Brian Harradine. Along with a few Greens and One Nation, the...
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The Mass Mobilization of Populations
Image from Snoopman … which also has Lorde’s censored speech on corporatized totalitarianism : https://snoopman.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/lordegrammyspeech.pdf Shaping corporate totalitarianism out of democratic ideas...
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Whither the Liberal Conscience?
Some observers would be surprised to see Senator George Brandis in conflict with leaders of ethnic and religious communities – including Greek,...
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Liz Smith – Why I’m standing for the Legislative Council as an independent
Attorney-General, Vanessa Goodwin, an MLC and member of the Liberal Party … Liz Smith wonders what (suspended-sentence) policy Ms Goodwin would support...
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The Politically Corrupting Bottle
Wait a minute! Hold on! Just a second! Being a ‘nice guy’ should be meaningless in the world of politics. Big Pollies...
