Tasmanian Times
Society
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A literary tour of Hobart
Thanks: Scott
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Drive ’em around the twist
http://www.theage.com.au/letters/index.html The Age, Thurs 6 April 2006 THOSE annoying telephone sales pitches could be eliminated within a few weeks without recourse to...
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The party line
THESE are interesting times for our western democracy. We are constantly reminded how important it is, we even bomb other countries to...
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Harry Seidler: something better
THE life of Austrian-born, Jewish Australian architect Harry Seidler, who recently died aged 82, was publicly commemorated this week. The service featured...
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We need a change of view
A Window: The Sunday Times reports that council workers in Harare each week find up to twenty corpses of new-born babies in...
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Aussie heroes?
AUSTRALIANS seem to be developing a rather twisted idea of the concept of heroism. The last thing I want to do is...
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Property rights
IF the right to own property is the “fundamental principle on which pluralist democracies are based” (Felmingham, Opinion, “Sunday Tasmanian”, 19/3/06), then...
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A bag of wonders
WHAT a bag of post-election political wonders turned up in The Mercury on April Fool’s Day! Tony Cutcliffe of the Melbourne based...
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Pesticides and fruit and veg
ARTICLES on this matter have recently appeared in The Guardian newspaper: Is Organic worth it?: www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/O..1743666.00.html And Choice magazine: Pesticides in our...
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April fool!
From … No Tern Unstoned — Musings at Breakfast, by Tim Bowden, published by ABC Books, 2004: One of the problems faced...
