Tasmanian Times
Wellbeing & Lifestyle
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830Three big chiefs to run health. Water bungle
TASMANIA is to have three senior health bureaucrats running the massive Department of Health and Human Services. Under a major reorganisation of...
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$5000 Fox Reward ends … ‘Mystery of the missing fox bait’
After 50 months a genuine Tasmanian fox has not been presented to claim the Tasmanian Times Fox Reward (HERE). The editor’s closure...
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Assange: what it means to be a suspect
If you google ‘rape’ with ‘Assange,’ you get several million hits, which suggests the Wikileaks founder has reason to complain that the...
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Football Fighting Gang Culture
It started with a shooting. Danielle Beccan was walking home from the Goose Fair in Nottingham in October 2004 when two men...
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Brighton: Echoes of the Franklin, says Brown. Independent review? Emergency listing.
The Australian Greens leader is demanding the Commonwealth overrule the Tasmanian Government in approving a controversial bridge in southern Tasmania. Tasmania’s Aboriginal...
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The Weeping Sore
As the Australian territory closest to Indonesia, Christmas Island has in recent years become a favoured destination for refugee boats. And so...
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Why consult the electorate?
With our parliamentarians voting in support of a motion to consult their electorates on gay marriage, it is worth asking why they...
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Take a stand with the beekeepers
On what scientific grounds does Tasmania continue to use the pesticides neonicotinoids, including imidacloprid? Both agriculture and forestry use these pesticides. Forestry...
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The Big Picture: Holiday Edition
Here’s the holiday issue Big Picture which I held for three weeks to gather enough material for you to delve into. The...
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WikiLeaks, journalists and that elusive public interest
It’s an unusual event: an open letter to the Prime Minister signed by the editor or editor-in-chief of almost every significant mainstream...
