Tasmanian Times
Health
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1.2KWhy tobacco prohibition won’t work
The eighteenth amendment to the United States constitution came into force on 29 January 1920. The manufacture, sale, transportation import or export...
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Tobacco Plain Packaging is Only First Step
PREVENTATIVE HEALTH MOMENTUM MUST BE MAINTAINED Tobacco Plain Packaging is Only First Step Paul O’Halloran MP Greens Health spokesperson Tuesday, 21 August...
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When personal best isn’t enough
London 2012 brought a raft of exemplary displays of human endeavours to our TV screens. Elite athletes did their stuff with stunning...
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Health bailout surgery to start this month
The first elective-surgery operations funded by a federal health bailout package are expected to take place within a fortnight. The funding has...
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Tasmania well placed for physicians assistants scheme pilot study
TASMANIA WELL PLACED FOR PHYSICIANS ASSISTANTS SCHEME PILOT STUDY Welcome Premier’s In-Principle Support Paul O’Halloran MP Greens Health spokesperson Friday, 10 August...
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The health handout and the Abbott-proof fence
Health Minister Michelle O’Byrne with Premier Giddings. Pic: Rob Walls, http://robertwalls.wordpress.com/ Almost two months ago the federal Health Minister, Tanya Plibersek promised...
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Farmers at risk of pesticide crackdown
Are farmers doing enough to prevent spray drift? Broadacre farmers are at risk of losing some of their most important pesticides if...
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Poppy Lopatniuk: Joyful … and deeply disturbing
Poppy Lopatniuk ‘We all live in Wentworth Park … Yet, the key message for all of us with this book is that...
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Buried treasure and toxins at Beaconsfield
As if befitting its tumultuous history of corporate conflict and human tragedy, the life of the Tasmania Mine at Beaconsfield seems destined...
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McGinity registered, conditions imposed. The Ombudsman’s report
McGinity patients protest at Parliament House THE Tasmanian Health Practitioners Tribunal has delivered a decision on the long-running registration case of Scottsdale...
