Tasmanian Times
Society
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853TPP Trade Pact Would Give Wall Street a Trump Card to Block Regulations
Banks and other financial institutions would be able to use provisions in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership to block new regulations that cut...
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Saudi Wells Running Dry — of Water — Spell End of Desert Wheat
*Image from here • Riyadh will import all the wheat needed for 2016 consumption. • Aquifers that had irrigated wheat crops depleting...
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‘My body was not mine, but the US Military’s’
Inside the disturbing sex industry thriving around America’s bases. At night in the Songtan camptown outside Osan Air Base in South Korea,...
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First Paleo Toilets To Be Installed In Fitzroy … !
A range of new Paleo public toilets will be installed in Melbourne’s inner north, allowing devotees to relieve themselves just as our...
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COMMENT: Does the Tasmanian Government really know what its policy is on pathology privatisation?
The Minister for State Growth, Matthew Groom, emphatically told State Parliament on Wednesday last week that the Hodgman Government’s policy was that...
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Urgent patients waiting months or years for care
*Pic: The buck stops here … Tasmanian Health Minister Michael Ferguson … Patients in need of urgent attention are being made to...
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State Government considers secret private bid for public ‘medical services’
The State Government is refusing to disclose details of unsolicited bids received by the Office of the Coordinator-General from companies pitching proposals...
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Health underfunded by $1.4 billion over a decade
Tasmania’s state health system has been underfunded, compared with those in other states, by at least $1.4 billion over the past decade....
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STATE: Lonely Planet stands by advice … Tassie’s Australian of the Year …
Travel guide publisher Lonely Planet is standing by its latest advice to travellers to visit Tasmania before its wilderness is “compromised”, rejecting...
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Trust’s ‘disgraceful amendment’. Keep the mountain as is, says Don Knowler …
*Pic: Under threat? The Organ Pipes on Mt Wellington … The Wellington Park Management Trust (WPMT) has approved the amendment to the...
