Tasmanian Times
Society
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847Andrew Wilkie: Parliament turns its back on problem gamblers
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has today (Tues) expressed his disgust that the Australian Parliament overturned the hard-won poker machine...
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Sick of the useless fighting …
I agree with Dr Bruce Felmingham (Sunday Tasmanian 23/3, Hodgman risks getting lost in forests, here). It seems clear that the incoming...
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Greed, pure and simple …
We’ve all seen movies depicting a dystopian future. Usually they envision a small group of elites living in sleekly designed homes wearing...
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Falling for a Pod of Dolphins. Story Competition …
Photograph taken in March 2014 near Bruny Island, Courtesy of Rod Houghton, Tassie Photographer @ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tassie-Photographer/162812083834306? Photograph Courtesy of Duncan Giblin, Stormboy...
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (3)
The “Respect the Mountain” forum ( here, here, and here ) at the Hobart Town Hall last month prompted Don Knowler to...
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Too Big, Too Fast, Tooooo Close!
I saw him coming and wondered how soon it would be before he gave me a wide berth … but he didn’t...
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Hans on for the Libs … ?
And who is offering advice to the Libs as they dismantle the TFA … ? Hag heard, on the Boulevard of Broken...
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GUNNS – The life and death of a rogue corporation
Feature-Length Documentary This story is part David and Goliath and part Enron. It discovers what happens when the system fails and a...
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Imagine if the winning team told the losers to suck it because they lost? SA …
Some random observations on the election results Tasmania’s 2014 House of Assembly election delivered a not unexpected majority to the Liberal party....
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James Hird’s wife Tania reveals details of ‘tip-off’ phone call. Keeping it all in the AFL ‘Family’
The wife of suspended Essendon coach James Hird says former Bombers chairman David Evans pressured her husband not to tell anti-doping investigators...
