Tasmanian Times
Society
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874Harriss Must Apologise or Resign
*Pic: The Facebook post which provoked the controversy … Resources Minister Paul Harriss and Premier Will Hodgman Mercury Background: Tasmanian Greens Facebook...
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Selective Harvesting or Selective Memory
*Pic: End product of specialty logging … a Huon Pine Denman Marine dinghy THERE has been much comment by the environment movement...
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Over to you Mr Nikolic …
In the small town of Scottsdale the loss of more than 300 jobs in a community of 7000 is virtually the kiss...
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MOU-MOUing the future eaters *
*with apologies to Tom Wolfe and Tim Flannery MOU – Memorandum of Understanding: n. (1) a carefully worded ‘all care and no...
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Norfolk Island takes lead on Marriage Equality
*Pic: A photo of Hayden Evans and Rodney Croome holding the Bill (Hayden is on the left) • Draft same-sex marriage legislation...
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Another climate expert retreats to Tasmania
Some years ago, founder of the Gaia theory, James Lovelock, predicted that Tasmania and south New Zealand will, in time, become overrun...
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Operation Icefish: Sea Shepherd launches new Southern Ocean campaign
Tuesday September 16th, 2014 – Hobart, Australia. Following Sea Shepherd’s victory of saving 784 threatened, endangered and protected whales during the 2013/14...
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Now there’s a surprise …
In the great tradition of Tasmanian journalism (?), Examiner Editor Martin Gilmour has moved seamlessly from editorship into advisership ( Voice of...
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Abetz still in the woods, fighting a lost war
As Tasmania lags behind Australia, Eric Abetz is reigniting old battles. It was a strange choice of words. In June last year,...
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Another broken promise: NBN backflip confirmed
Launceston, TAS, 15 September 2014– Digital Tasmania today condemned the Federal Government announcement, by proxy, that the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout...
