Tasmanian Times
Wellbeing & Lifestyle
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910Potential bidders for Gunns get more time
KORDA MENTHA partner Bryan Webster has extended the deadline for expressions of interest in all or part of Gunns Group to the...
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Tim, lighting the way
The name ‘Munro’ translates as ‘the red haired tonsured one’, deriving from ‘maol’ meaning bald, and ‘ruadh’, red or auburn. It’s conjours...
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Martin Gilmour: Here is a quick lesson …
Martin Gilmour in the Sunday Examiner 22- 12- 2013 – under the spurious title “Whistle Blower” – proves that he is indeed...
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The day Australia failed the test of the most basic common decency …
Picture from www.banliveexports.com Yesterday, December 13 2013, The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) granted a permit for 80,000 Australian sheep...
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Why the Tasmanian Fox Eradication Program has been worse than a complete and utter failure
Summary: The 10-year fox eradication program has failed dismally because it was initiated as broadacre poisoning based on flawed data and the...
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Abbott breaks election promise on whales
The Abbott government has abandoned its pre-election promise to send a Customs vessel to monitor Japan’s illegal whaling in the Southern Ocean...
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Bushfires: Little pressure on the state government to show leadership
The Tasmanian Bushfires Inquiry Report The Tasmanian Bushfires Inquiry Report was released in early October and briefly enlivened the public debate about...
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Farewell to former Mercury journalist David Stockdale, who has died at age 66
IT says something about his status as a local legend that former Mercury journalist David Stockdale was simply known as “Stockers”, even...
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Big Brother is watching … and disseminating your personal data …
Big Brother is on the prowl … quite apart from Edward Snowden’s (and the Guardian’s) consistent whistle-blowing on surveillance comes a first-hand...
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Travellers’ Good Buys
The Twilight Parade … a Chinese New Year highlight. Travellers’ Good Buys for the week beginning December 23 From January 24 to...
