Tasmanian Times
Health
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1.3KAnother Super Trawler heading to Australia
*Pic: Flashback to 2013 … The Margiris … rebadged Abel Tasman … The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, is joining members...
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Call for permanent fracking ban
Independent member of the Legislative Council, the Hon. Mike Gaffney, will table a petition in the Upper House on Tuesday, calling for...
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Stage 4: The Final Step in the Colonisation and Possession of Australia
From the late eighteenth century till 2015: the initial invasion of the great, southern continent will now enter its fourth and final...
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Play …
When did you last let yourself play? Not sport or games or politics. I mean play like children: inventing, creating, making or...
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Hobart health risked by cruise ships? Background Briefing’s shocking report
Three cruise ships dock in Hobart, as captured by ABC … as ominous clouds of woodsmoke creep toward the city … •...
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Medicare: the co-payment lives!
Tony Abbott says the Medicare co-payment is ‘dead, buried and cremated’. But it’s already arising from the political crematorium as a much...
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Dying Like An Animal: The Price Of Empathy And How Governments Use Yours Against You
Want to know why some people are more moved by greyhound baiting, than by an Aboriginal death in custody? Why the Abbott...
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The Intergenerational Report focuses on the old, when the future belongs to the young
Releasing Australia’s fourth Intergenerational Report, Joe Hockey described it as the “social compact between generations”, which would help “identify where the future...
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Carmen’s call
*Pic: Portrait of Dr Carmen Lawrence, Subject: Dr Carmen Lawrence, Artist: Deanne Haddow. From here I first met Carmen Lawrence at a...
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Myrtle rust in Tasmania …
Biosecurity Advisory 08/2015 Myrtle rust in Tasmania: Increased focus on Lophomyrtus varieties – assistance required [DPIPWE advice] Current Status Biosecurity Tasmania is...
