Tasmanian Times
Wellbeing & Lifestyle
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918A bail-out of a badly managed private consortium
The election ritual certainly reinforces a belief in cargo cultism. On his latest flying visit to Hobart Tony Abbott promised $38 million...
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Capricious and partisan – Is that how the Legislative Council wants to be seen?
In the otherwise commendable Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Act there is an odd little section which, if the Liberal Party and the Upper House...
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For the rest of the year humans will use more resources than the earth can provide
For the past several years, as the days of summer start getting just enough shorter for you to realize that fall is...
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Lake Pedder: Inundation and Restoration
The Lake Pedder Restoration Committee recently launched (at MONA) Lake Pedder: Inundation and Restoration, a 3D visualisation which enables viewers to appreciate...
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Lucy’s Story: Media Manipulation
The Examiner of 23rd August, 2013 ( electronic edition: Watch our Bass candidates in action ) contained either a terrible gaffe by...
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Asylum Seeker Myth Buster
*Picture: Christmas Island wreck, from ABC News online. Myth: Asylum seekers are illegal immigrants FACT: Asylum seekers are neither illegal nor are...
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Abbott the boatie
In an additional policy release on Asylum Seekers on part of the policy offer was a $20M boat buyback scheme for Indonesia....
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Larceny by trick: tax evasion
This is the 19th extract from Evan Whitton’s Our Corrupt Legal System, available free at netk.net.au/whittonhome.asp. The story so far. Justice Russell...
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Are vulvas so obscene that we have to censor them?
Eighteen vulvas. All belong to women of Sydney University, and feature on the cover of Honi Soit, the university’s student newspaper. We...
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Internet muddies ethics on child pornography
A Tasmanian study finds that one in ten people believe there is nothing wrong with viewing or distributing child pornography. (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-18/survey-finds-acceptable-of-child-porn/4894764?section=tas) Researchers...
