Tasmanian Times
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912‘Child Protection Crisis’
CHILD PROTECTION WORKERS IN LAUNCESTON ARE MEETING TODAY TO VOTE ON TAKING INDUSTRIAL ACTION IN RESPONSE TO UNSAFE CASELOADS HACSU Assistant Secretary...
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Rape victims and whistleblower speak out about Nauru violence
The recent cycle of violence in Australia’s offshore detention regime is continuing as another two refugees report being raped and their cases...
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Don’t Miss … Three upcoming Economic Society of Tasmania events …
Three flyers for our program of upcoming events – the next is this Wednesday (30 September) and features Nils Axel Braathen, Principal...
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‘We view this place as home now’
*Pic: Official handover ceremony on September 18, 2015, centre pic, from left … Rodney Dillon, Deputy Chair, & Ben Sculthorpe, Chair weetapona...
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The Queen and I go a long way back …
THE QUEEN AND I go a long way back. I first heard of her, when I was a preschooler in a tough,...
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The Tarkine Tiger
*Pics: It is a remarkable coincidence that for the past 14 years, the Senior Zoologist of the Threatened Species Unit of the...
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Where to from here?
Kudos to the Federal Government. No, I never thought I would say it, but they took me by surprise and I can’t...
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Decriminalise the use of small amounts of illicit drugs …
THIS month police in Perth confiscated 320kg of methamphetamine, estimated to be worth $320 million, in what was Western Australia’s biggest seizure...
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As a young African woman, I have a privileged position …
“I always had a sense of owing due to the good fortune of being able to move to Tasmania and receive a...
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Advocates of the Far Side
Dave Hansford has just popped out of the woodwork again. This time to make comment on Penelope Marshall’s article, “Green Death from...
