Tasmanian Times
Planning/Heritage
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946Smaller parliament rips us all off
THE introduction of weakened, cut-price democracy in Tasmania nearly 20 years ago has left the State with seriously diminished government. The failure...
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First Day … October
A celebration of the first day of October … Morrison’s Strahan Sawmill workbench Exposed banded sediments Lake Pedder south Eroded rock formations...
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‘Fragrance highrise a backdrop to community concerns over development laws’
First published September 29 A weakening of planning laws and community engagement, undemocratic ‘major project’ legislation and a taxpayer funded PR campaign...
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Southern Outlet: Sleep Disturbance from Trucks at Night
*Pic: Southern Outlet. Wikimedia Commons First published September 27 Residents living adjacent Hobart’s Southern Outlet recently gathered to express concerns about increasing...
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‘TasWater takeover bad policy based on scare tactics’
THE State Government’s attempt to take over TasWater is bad policy based on scare tactics and misinformation. Brighton Mayor Tony Foster told...
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Same sex marriage … as if you haven’t read or heard enough already
‘Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one’ – Inspector Harry Callahan (Dirty Harry), The Dead Pool, 1988. First published September 26 And...
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A philosopher’s view of the same sex marriage debate
*Pic: Nic McBride, Flickr First published September 26 The same sex marriage debate is a test of our capacity as a community...
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Richard Flanagan In Conversation with Phillip Adams
First published September 19 State Cinema Bookstore presents: Richard Flanagan In Conversation with Phillip Adams In his first public Tasmanian event since...
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Wilderness, especially mountains, are so foreign …
The launch of Donald Knowler’s The Shy Mountain by Charles Wooley soon turned into a bunfight after Charles told Knowler to put...
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4WD tracks in the Tarkine: The Wilderness Society’s submission to the Commonwealth …
*Pic: Damaged midden on the taykana Aboriginal cultural landscape, north of Lagoon River, Nov 2016 Download The Wilderness Society’s submission to the...
