Tasmanian Times
Health
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664Hockey’s IGR: Meaningless forecasts based on magical thinking
Cigar time … the infamous shot of Treasurer Joe Hockey and Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann enjoying cigars pre-Budget The 2015 intergenerational...
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STATE: Lapoinya; Institutionalised duck-shoving. EMRS …
Imagine a Planning Scheme that permits residents to raise concerns about a neighbouring development that appears to breach building and zoning restrictions,...
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The Intergenerational Report and Triggs’ TFC: What it says about us. Thursday: Living to 100
Federal Treasurer, Joe ‘Show-bag’ Hockey, a man of few graces, no distinction and fewer achievements, has finally done something noteworthy. He has...
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NATION: Abbott’s Dark and Chilling Vision for Australia
The bipartisan approach in relation to refugee policy, Manus Island and Nauru, Cambodia and elsewhere, indicts us all, infects us all like...
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Answers Needed Over Macquarie Harbour Health Concerns
The Greens have today exposed serious concerns raised within the salmon farm industry about the health of Macquarie Harbour, tabling in the...
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She moved us to Melbourne to avoid the possibility … that I would kill my father …
He would come out of the darkness, lost somewhere in a fog of morphine and over-proof rum. He would rave, scream, shouting...
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Tarkine Rainforest and the Mining Industry Spin
Consistent with Tasmania’s Tourism Industry Council’s claim that woodchips and tourism can maybe co exist – the Tas Minerals and Energy Council...
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Submissions to the Medicinal Cannabis Bill
SUBMISSIONS ARE REQUESTED FROM THE PUBLIC BY THE SENATE WITH REGARD TO THE MEDICINAL CANNABIS BILL On 12 February 2015, the Senate...
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Apocalypse Now … Lapoinya
The Minister for Resources, Paul Harris, and the Treasurer, Peter Gutwein, are the two Forestry Tasmania shareholders who hold their shares in...
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Pulp mill stink spelled the end of Gunns
Pulp mills stink. To convey how badly, in 2007, a former CSIRO scientist, Warwick Raverty, smuggled a sample of the odour, soaked...
