Tasmanian Times
Health
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969Now the Tassie gay marriage bill has been found to be constitutionally safe …
When the Same-Sex Marriage Bill was narrowly defeated in the Upper House last year the main concern of MLCs was the constitutionality...
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TasWater Bully Pioneer Landholders
Jenny Bellinger, Lin Simpson Landowners in the township of Pioneer have been put on an impossible deadline to complete paperwork for TasWater’s...
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NSW bushfires Q & A: How firefighters contain a massive blaze
As bushfires continue to burn through the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, ACT Rural Fire Service chief officer Andrew Stark answers...
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Climate change raising fire risk
A NSW firestorm: the road from Katoomba to Blackheath Climate change is increasing the probability of extreme bushfire conditions, a report by...
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Advocates call for Upper House to act on marriage law …
In the wake of same-sex marriage legislation in the ACT, Tasmanian marriage equality advocates have called on the state Upper House to...
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This issue will not go away …
Lara Giddings today expressed disappointment at the narrow defeat of voluntary assisted dying legislation. Ms Giddings said while the private members bill...
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Release of ‘game-changing’ same-sex marriage legal opinion
Supporters of the Tasmanian Same-Sex Marriage Bill will today released a “game changing” legal opinion that backs the constitutionality of the Bill....
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Damning report on Tasmania’s bushfire crisis. The NSW horror …
An independent inquiry into Tasmania’s January bushfires has heavily criticised the emergency response to the devastating fires, saying lives were probably put...
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GE-free status is the key to markets, Jan Davis
The Tasmanian and Australian Greens today called for the state’s moratorium on genetically engineered (GE) food crops to remain in place, saying...
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Tasmanian doctors support voluntary euthanasia laws. MPs lobbied
TASMANIAN doctors have come out in defence of new voluntary euthanasia laws. Australian Medical Association Tasmanian president John Davis has described the...
