Tasmanian Times
Wellbeing & Lifestyle
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986New film festival to reveal the darker side of the female psyche
Hobart – 7 February —Tasmania will host a film festival with a difference this month, with the inaugural Stranger With My Face...
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Marvellous, Magnificent Miriam!
Miriam Margolyes hearty voice greets me over the phone with the priceless words that her mouth is full. There couldn’t be a...
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Local government, land value, Labor and Leo …
Leo Foley on the HCC steps. Pic: Margot Giblin A Conversation with Alderman Leo Foley Leo Foley was elected to the Hobart...
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Species dying out on Labor’s watch
The Tasmanian Greens today said Labor in Tasmania could realistically expect the ignominious honour of at least two significant species dying out...
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Asylum seekers battle – Keep Pontville open
Tasmanians have a week to convince Immigration Minister Chris Bowen to cop some political fallout and keep the Pontville Detention Centre open,...
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The $200,000 prisons chief on Twitter …
Unguarded twitter entry – since removed, but not before Peter snapped it … Mercury: British jail boss for Risdon DAVID KILLICK 06...
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Are 35 Fools More Talented Than 25?
My title is a bit harsh, because they are not all fools, but I want to illustrate an absurdity. Increasing the numbers...
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1792: Growing when D’Entrecasteaux explored the Huon
Photo: Ula Majewski Today, conservationists from the Huon Valley Environment Centre have released a sample of a celery top pine we believe...
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The Tragedy of Tasmania’s Forests: One act on from Flanagan
This story begins with Richard Flanagan’s powerful and influential 2007 essay, ‘Gunns: the Tragedy of Tasmania’ (i). The story Flanagan tells is...
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Gunns in trading halt
TIMBER company Gunns Limited is in a trading halt this morning pending the announcement of a capital raising and equity investment. Last...
