Tasmanian Times
Health
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824A message to GetUp members from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams
A message to GetUp members from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams: Dear Robert, As the founding coordinator of the International Campaign...
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How can they fund three new departments?
May I bring to a greater number of peoples’ attention a small article In the 10.8.11 Mercury reporting the following: “New Hospital...
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Confusion Around Minister’s Budget Statement
Public Sector Unions today criticised Michelle O’Byrne’s announcement yesterday around further savings identified across the Department of Health and Human Services branding...
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Marriage equality not the main issue
While I am a Deputy National President of the Australian Democrats, I highly doubt that any of the membership would agree with...
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Socialist Alliance outrage over the state government budget …
Socialist Alliance members were outraged by the harsh neo-liberal budget handed down by the Tasmanian Labor-Greens government on June 16. The government...
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Gillard hails health reforms … as Wilkie lashes private hospitals
• Prime Minister Julia Gillard, ABC Online: Prime Minister Julia Gillard has launched the Government’s hospital funding agreement with the states and...
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Tasmanian budget cuts – opportunity rather than crisis for our health system?
The recent Tasmanian budget has confirmed the old saying that when the tide goes out you get to see who’s been swimming...
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Three quarters of Australians back mandatory limits on poker machines
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has welcomed another in a long line of national polls showing overwhelming support for poker...
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Fire and humans
Professor of Forest Ecology David Bowman from the University of Tasmania in Hobart, talks about human involvement with fire and its consequences....
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Naughty Tobacco Industry – needs a good spanking
Nannies are lovely people. It is reprehensible that the tobacco industry is vilifying nannies. What next? Abusing apple pies? Slandering Snowflakes? Maligning...
