Tasmanian Times
Wellbeing & Lifestyle
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856Meanwhile … just how long will it take to crack the Tassie Paradigm … ?
Guardian: Tasmania gambling on an uncertain economic future The Apple Isle is searching for answers to a record budget deficit and the...
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ICAC recommends charges against former NSW Labor ministers Eddie Obeid and Ian Macdonald
The New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has recommended former Labor ministers Ian Macdonald and Eddie Obeid face criminal charges...
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Butler approves Tarkine mine …
Federal Environment Minister Mark Butler has approved Shree Minerals’ mine in Tasmania’s Tarkine region. The initial approval for the $20 million project...
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He is the quintessential whistleblower
Today Bradley Manning, a whistleblower, was convicted by a military court at Fort Meade of 19 offences for supplying the press with...
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Environmentalists urge Rudd to scrap ‘failed’ forestry deal with states
A coalition of environment groups has urged the federal government to tear up its “failed” forestry deal with states, which they blame...
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It will be the fault of MLCs, not us, say activists. Fear of ‘Terrorism’
Huon Valley Environment Centre and Still Wild Still Threatened respond to the opinion of the Tasmanian Greens Leader that a moratorium on...
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Death sentence for ‘virtually indigenous’ wallabies
Stop Tasmanian Animal Cruelty has received distressing reports of a government plan to slaughter between 200 and 300 Agile Wallabies very soon...
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‘Greens lost in wilderness on toxics’
‘It is not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends that in the end hurts us the most’...
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‘Powerful doco shows justice gone feral’
I’ve just pre-viewed a chilling TV doco, Shadow of Doubt, about justice in Australia: a woman is serving 23 years in jail...
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Animal cruelty, Tasmania
Last Wednesday, at the Magistrates’ Court in Launceston, sentencing proposals were put to Magistrate Reg Marron by Prosecutor Harry Virs in the...
