Tasmanian Times
Wellbeing & Lifestyle
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989The Pulp Mill Follies
This week the Tasmanian parliament will debate, and presumably pass, the Pulp Mill Assessment Amendment Bill 2014 – the so-called ‘doubts removal’...
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Former government heads back plan for honest government
Tasmanians for Transparency has received the endorsement of former state government officials Dr Jocelyn Scutt, Dr Patmalar Ambikapathy Thuraisingham and Mr Barry...
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If the amendments get passed …
Just for any legally minded masochists amongst us, I have drafted a copy of the PMAA 2007 as it would appear if...
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The Dictatorship of Majority Government
Senator Christine Milne on Minority vs Majority Government in Tasmania … The Deal is done in the Back Room and deilvered in...
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McKim on royalties – too little too late
Nick McKim’s recent attack on Labor’s decision to [i]favourably consider[/i] deferring royalty payments to Shree Minerals is indicative of just how tongue...
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A new Devil: Cost benefit analysis
Perhaps I am just becoming a peevish old man. I don’t think so because I view life as ‘pretty good’ and wake...
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Our Shrinking State
Miss Denny’s solution to our declining and ageing population (Mercury December 29) is to attract a “preferred” younger demographic, particularly women of...
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Organic farmer vs. GM farmer facing trial on February 10
World’s first case January 22, Melbourne – Organic farmer Steve Marsh will soon face his neighbour in the WA Supreme Court in...
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Betty King … first white woman in Australia
In September 1963, the late Henry Shoobridge of Bushy Park, Tasmania, who was a well know local identity and hop grower, placed...
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News appoints Matt Deighton as new Mercury editor
MATT Deighton has been appointed editor of the Mercury. The announcement was made yesterday by News Corp Australia’s chief executive, Julian Clarke....
