State

Bertrand Cadart races ahead …

Just as I was preparing a piece on the self-promoting so-called flamboyant inarticulate antipodean frog-mayor Bertrand Cadart, he has raced ahead of...

Mid year prognosis

The Premier’s Mid Year update revealed an unsustainable budget position. No policy prescriptions were offered. Likewise Mr Hodgman’s plan, offers no solutions....

Alternatives to a Cable Car on Mt Wellington (Kunanyi)

Police Minister supports continued secrecy over Tasmania Police manual

Tasmanian Police Minister David O’Byrne has put his Government behind a decision by Tasmania Police to continue the secrecy over the Tasmania...

No Pulp Mill Alliance Public Meeting

Aurora’s storm vulnerability

A week after strong winds led to blackouts for approximately 70,000 customers across the state, Aurora Energy is left mulling how and...

Part 2 of the Leon Compton Interview with Geoffrey Cousins ABC radio Tuesday 11 February

“… what has held this mill up has got nothing to do with political support, or legal support. The project received support...

Geoffrey Cousins on the the latest changes to the pulp mill legislation

Interview on ABC Hobart radio, February 11, 2014. Leon Compton: If a Government trying to assist the Pulp mill project shows the...

Tasmania does not need a law and order auction or a punitive justice system.

Vanessa Goodwin MLC’s announcement (The Mercury, 1 February) that the Liberals will eliminate suspended sentences is the wrong answer to the wrong...

Barry Greenberry vindicated

“It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies” – Arthur Calwell, ALP federal leader in the 1960s....