Tasmanian Times
Health
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903Will ‘conservative white males’ ever be prepared to act on evidence on tobacco control?
Tasmania still has the highest smoking rates of any state in Australia. Around 1400 Tasmanians have died from tobacco related diseases and...
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Women Challenging the Culture in Science: Inciting Inclusion
On 30 March 2016, the Faculty of Health and Menzies Institute for Medical Research at the University of Tasmania hosted a gender...
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Why does our outrage just fade away … ?
• First published July 13 … *Pic: Liz West, Flickr ( HERE ) The Premier of NSW, Mike Baird, has made the...
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NZ: The horror of wild animal poisoning
NZ shares with Tasmania so much … including Gondwana and the use of the poison 1080 … In New Zealand, where the...
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Tobacco industry duplicity, legal arguments, the Legislative Council …
*Pic: Sony200boy, Tobacco Road, Flickr … and the tobacco free generation The Legislative Council Sessional Committee Government Administration A, has brought down...
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STATE: How Hodgman, Gutwein and Ferguson lost the election …
*Pic: The Buck stops HERE … From Peter Gutwein’s Facebook page. Treasurer Gutwein and Premier Will Hodgman spruik the 2016 Budget …...
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Everyone rejoice, Manus Island is ‘open and free’!
*Pic: by Tatters. Flickr Landing: Final Approach Nauru island. Didn’t you hear Julie Bishop? Manus Island is open and free! Asylum seekers...
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A Big Week for Boy-Men
*Pic: of Caroline Wilson … Image from HERE Pic: Eddie McGuire by Flying Cloud, Flickr, HERE We have to get more light...
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The destructive madness of hospital funding
*Pic: From Michael Ferguson’s Facebook page HERE The number of patients being treated in Tasmania’s public hospitals is set to fall for...
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The AMA’s attack on Liberal policy …
The Tasmanian President of the Australian Medical Association, Acting Professor Tim Greenaway has launched an extraordinary attack on the Tasmanian Liberal Government’s...
