Tasmanian Times
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804The anger at those health cuts. A GP’s view
Tasmanian Greens have completed a fact-finding tour of the state’s three main hospitals, to hear directly how the announced health budget cuts...
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Another three Diggers die
An attacker wearing an Afghan army uniform has shot dead three Australian soldiers and wounded seven others in Afghanistan. An Afghan interpreter...
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Looming GST threat gives new urgency to state tax reform
The Tasmanian Greens are concerned that the looming threat of a cut in the state’s GST allocation added new urgency to the...
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Forestry decline: It’s no-one’s fault, says Giddings. But Libs would forgo $276m
Government Listening to Forestry Concerns The Premier, Lara Giddings, today welcomed the opportunity to talk to businesses affected by the downturn in...
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Ron’s uplifting experience
Good one in new Hobart City Council Deputy Lord Mayor Ron Christie’s letter to (Mercury) editor today: Whole new Taste (5th par)...
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Apple Isle shows off its warm inner glow – in the most natural way
ENVIOUS of West Australian wealth, Queensland’s sunshine and warmth, South Australia’s housing affordability, Victoria’s style? What about Tasmania’s um, er … happiness?...
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1000 expected to rally against health cutbacks
HEALTH and public sector unions are expecting up to 1000 people to join a rally against government budget cuts in Launceston today....
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RHH rebuild going to mainland companies
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, is calling on the State Government to stop shipping jobs to the mainland and start...
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Greens take a right step in Labor waltz
For years there has been discussion around the Labor party losing its core social democratic focus and shifting to third way politics....
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Seven years and counting…
It was early 2005 when Bob Gordon sat in the dining room where I lived in Kayena, an idyllic locale just a...
