Society

Medic alert in Cygnet

Huon Valley Guessing Games When you see a quarter-page ad in the Cygnet & Channel Classifieds (February 20) predicting a “bright future...

A Government Funded Forestry Legacy

A Government Funded Forestry Legacy … In the meantime the forests burn … “The area burned by bushfires in Tasmania could be...

World Heritage mockery … An act of real bastardry

A response to Richard Colbeck’s World Heritage mockery here, here, here, here, here, and here This Ringworm on the scalp of our...

Honest Government not on the election agenda for the Major Parties

None of the incumbent MPs standing for re-election in the March state election responded to Tasmanians for Transparency’s candidate survey on a...

The Wall, West Hobart

Things aren’t that bad …

There’s a lot to admire about Australia, especially if you’re a visiting American, says David Mason. More often than you might expect,...

Five Ideas That May Change How You Think About Privacy

TED, NPR and The Huffington Post are teaming up to explore the state of privacy today. Listen here

For women’s organisations, a historic step forward towards gender equality …

[Brussels, 26 February 2014] The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) warmly welcomes the vote of the European Parliament today which recognises that prostitution...

More whales slaughtered in whale sanctuary

Sunday March 2, 2014 – Melbourne, Australia — Today, at approximately 10:05 AEDT, Sea Shepherd located the factory vessel of the Japanese...

Big majority sick of forest war

MORE than 90 per cent of Tasmanians are sick of the conflict over native forestry and support an agreement to end it,...