Tasmanian Times
Society
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Howard’s Tampa II
John Ward The next life at sea crisis involved the controversial boat where the Government claimed the passengers had tried to throw...
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Economic predation in Tasmania
Brenda Rosser Tasmania’s economy is now criminogenic: it fosters and rewards criminal behavior. As the economist James Galbraith noted, neither markets nor...
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Tasmania’s war machine
James Boyce The second event was more recent. Just a few days ago I was crossing the Bowen Bridge over the Derwent,...
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The poorly-educated politician
Turnoff Thetelly It is interesting to note that so few Tasmanian politicians claim to have any post-secondary education. Only 10 of the...
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Join the Voters Block
Susan McMahon So far about two and a half thousand people have registered their names on the Voters Block, and the aim...
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It’s not good enough
Tom Nilsson Our Governments are clearly not taking climate change seriously enough. John Howard has only recently started to even pretend to...
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Out of control
Richard Flanagan The Monthly article in full: The tragedy of Tasmania’s forests This story begins with a Tasmanian man fern ( Dicksonia...
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The Philistine (3)
Leo Schofield The UB sent regrets. Perhaps he would have felt uncomfortable among a group of people dedicated to the enhancement of...
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The self-important species
Neil Smith Like Ben, I’m probably a pantheistic monist. Nature and god are pretty much synonymous. That’s probably why I am also...
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DPIW in crisis (5)
Mike Bolan There’s about 7,000 loggers in Tasmania. The tourism industry employs about 38,000 people in a wide range of occupations. In...
