Tasmanian Times
Society
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977NATION: a government drowning by numbers
Pic: From Greg Hunt’s Twitter feed, HERE A fistful of dollars at the ready, our PM stoops to help a beggar on...
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Why Huon Valley Council should still be sacked
*Pic: Simone Watson, Peter Gutwein and Peter Coad Huon Valley Guessing Games It’s struggling, yet, kinda-sorta, “dysfunctional” Huon Valley Council is still...
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Animal protection does not win votes …
*Pic: Kelly Garbato FLICKR Submission to: the International Policy Team of the CITES Management Authority of Australia in the Department of the...
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Head in the sand …
Why we’ll never see preventative action on sea-level rise … So far Tassie’s coastal communities haven’t suffered from Collaroy-like storm surge damage...
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The Worthiness of Trees – Reflections from an Activist
Quietly the merging light crept within. Dawn awakens. Wafts of floating mist drift silently through the giant fingers of eucalypt. In peace...
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Tolputt Triumphant
It was a sunny Sunday in summer 2013. I was spending the weekend with friends in Launceston and popped into the Queen...
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UNLESS … the giant freshwater lobster will disappear from the planet forever …
R. Mawbey’s pic of a giant freshwater crayfish, from Tasmania’s Parks and Wildlife Service, HERE The giant freshwater crayfish habitat RE: Public...
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Postcard from Hua Hin … Letters to my grandchildren (19)
Hua Hin, Thailand. A beautiful beachside town, formerly predominantly a fishing village but now one that relies heavily on tourism. A destination...
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How the world media reports Nauru abuse …
*Pic: Love Makes A Way sit-in for asylum seekers, at the office of Malcolm Turnbull MP. Photo: Kate Ausburn, Flickr. Australia’s appalling...
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NATION: A government in diabolical trouble …
Barely a month after being sworn in, the Turnbull government is in diabolical trouble: its Census, sensationally botched; its gulag on Nauru...
