Tasmanian Times
Society
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900Huon mayor missing in inaction
Huon Valley guessing games Claytonesque seems the best fit for Mayor Robert Armstrong, MLC these days. Huon Valley Council’s sometime mayor, for...
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The callous, appalling and simplistic response of Brett Whiteley
Since the 1980’s I have worked both in Burnie on the North West Coast and now in Triabunna on Tasmania’s East Coast....
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Will Tony follow Michael’s fine example?
Will Prime Minister Tony Abbott follow the fine example of Tassie’s Michael Ferguson ( Red-faced Ferguson pays back $776 luxury taxi fare...
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Is this how you feel?
*Pic: Thomas Cole, Course of Empire … Fear, anxiety and exasperation are some of the worrying feelings being expressed by Australia’s leading...
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More on nesting Peregrine Falcons in Tasmania … prepare to be amazed …
In 2013 the editor/moderator of Tas Times kindly posted several hundred still photos of the development of a brood of Peregrine falcons...
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Hobart Baroque: Be realistic, demand the impossible!
Recently there has been much discussion about the funding issues of the Baroque Festival in Hobart. I have followed this discussion over...
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Supermarket Monsters
The Nikitaras brothers’ corner store has a hallucinatory shine, like a set from a period movie. Staff in navy blue uniforms and...
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More Follies on the Capes
It seems that almost every month the 3 Capes project exposes another event of illogical blundering, bumbling bureaucracy and visionless political agendas....
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The Governor’s Legacy
The life of Peter Underwood was recently honoured by a State funeral, with eulogies to a distinguished lawyer, Chief Justice and respected...
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (26)
*Pic: Wikipedia’s picture of a pardalote from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striated_pardalote The “Respect the Mountain” forum ( here, here, and here ) at the...
