Tasmanian Times
Society
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949The pervasive power of Rupert Murdoch. The Bullying and Hypocrisy of Andy Coulson
In this first extract from his new book, the reporter who broke the phone hacking story looks at Rebekah Brooks’s 2009 wedding...
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My anger at the instant blaming of the Ukrainian resistance and Russia
In our society even those accused of heinous crimes have a right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. Like all of...
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (22)
Image from here A flock of black-headed honeyeaters huddled out of the bitterly cold winds in the shelter of a silver wattle...
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The Torquay Ferry Cross the Mersey
The Context: The Torquay Ferry has been in continuous operation since the 1850’s transporting community members across the Mersey from East to...
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Forestry Tasmania’s Blueprint for Entitlement …
Forestry Tasmania creates logging blueprint for state’s timber production zone: Mercury here, and: Forestry Tasmania here It’s all a bit hum-hum, sad...
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Michael Ferguson: Rebuilding Tasmania’s Health System
Speech to Tasmanian Health Conference 2014 at the UTAS Medical Science Precinct today It is my privilege to be here to speak...
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Tassie: Public Servants make up carbon tax shortfall
The immediate effects of the abolition of the carbon tax on State government revenues were factored into the mid year update issued...
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An ABC interview …
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Richard Flanagan lone Aussie on Booker longlist
Richard Flanagan is the sole Australian writer on the longlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize, the first time the prize has...
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Damon’s sparkling launch …
Lord Mayor Damon Thomas’s C3 church ‘last canvas event’ on Wednesday evening was star speckled. Colourful John X was the MC and...
