Wellbeing & Lifestyle

Protest in the 21st century: is naked the new balaclava?

For those of us who grew up with marches and rallies as the default type (or stereotype) of protest, some of the...

Lake Burbury

I’m a conservative, but this asylum seekers comic is disgusting

There’s something fascinating about the government’s latest foray into deterrence propaganda, produced by the Customs and Border Protection Service to deter asylum...

Climate science must be part of national curriculum

A guest speaker at the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society’s (AMOS) annual conference tomorrow will call for climate science to be included...

Upside Down World

“Oppressed majority” takes place in an alternate reality where women jog half naked and work while the men take care of the...

Arm End: Reserved for the Public or a Private Development?

There is a battle underway over the control of a recreational reserve in a corner of Tasmania. The story deserves to be...

Normal service resumes on Monday, February 24

From today – unavoidably – Tasmanian Times enters Caretaker Mode. Articles will continue to be posted by Bob and James. So …...

The Failure of Far Right-Wing Ideology

An early taste of things to come for Tasmania under the anthropogenic climate change that the failure of right wing ideology is...

29 MPs let corporate interest dictate their votes …

• How they voted: YES: Farrell, Harriss, Hall, Rattray, Taylor, Forrest, Hiscutt, Goodwin, Dean, Mulder. NO: Armitage, Valentine, Gaffney, Finch. The Tasmanian...

Just ask someone trying to get an operation …

I hope that the following is considered relevant to Tasmania’s current politics and legislation. To us, the story for my partner epitomizes...