Tasmanian Times
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799Leg Co candidates’ pitch
All candidates in the upcoming Legislative Council elections are invited to provide a 200-word statement of their pitch to voters (and photo)...
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (7)
The “Respect the Mountain” forum ( here, here, and here ) at the Hobart Town Hall last month prompted Don Knowler to...
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The underdog bites back
The election of Palmer United Party’s Jacqui Lambie to the Senate surprised many. But a 10-year battle with Veterans’ Affairs shows the...
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Neville ‘Nifty’ Wran
(From Goodbye Jerusalem, 1997) …..Nifty I had known in a different way. When Rosemary Foot had asked in the Legislative Assembly was...
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To be a decent citizen
It is more difficult than we think to define decent behaviour. We all understand it to mean being kind, generous and helpful....
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FT submission: It is not acceptable …
‘It is not acceptable for Forestry Tasmania to continue to use (aerially apply) alpha-cypermethrin to plantations in water catchments and also seek...
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A cable car in Tassie … an historic chalet in Victoria …
Plans to refurbish the historic Mount Buffalo Chalet have passed a major hurdle with the recent approval from Heritage Victoria for ”outbuildings”...
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In Tasmania, even crooks like Gay can run a business
What the hell do the judges smoke down in the Apple Isle? First there was the insider trading case against John Gay,...
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Mike Baird replaces Barry O’Farrell
New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell says he will resign owing to a “significant memory fail on my part” when giving evidence...
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Premier misrepresents the consequences of his own TFA actions
The Wilderness Society today corrected the Premier’s assertions about the ‘non-contentious’ nature of Tasmanian timber produced from areas established under the terms...
