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883The best way to stop the boats and drive down tourism? Demolish what they have come to see …
The demolition of yet another century old house in Battery Point is imminent. Not just any old cottage but one intimately connected...
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Greens to move no confidence on basis of toxic legislation. NGOs warning. Defeated …
Black Flags, Parliament House, Lawns, Tuesday, January 28. Picture: Matt Newton, http://matthewnewton.com.au/Commercial/People/1/ The Tasmanian Greens today said that if Premier Lara Giddings...
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Save the Tarkine applies to Supreme Court for release of secret EPA documents
Save the Tarkine has lodged an application in the Supreme Court seeking the release of documents pertaining to changes made to the...
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The General takes command …
Former defence force chief and Vietnam veteran officially named by Tony Abbott as Governor-General Quentin Bryce’s successor General Peter Cosgrove has been...
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Find me …
Just one of scores of web-based appeal for information on Lucille Butterworth…missing since 1969. The man who claims to have driven the...
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The Rule Of Law – Tasmanian Style
Picture: Bob Burton “The prerequisite for everything political is moral. Politics should be ethics put into practice.” Vaclav Havel. “The ends justify...
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A Wave of Unreason
“A wave of unreason” is a phrase author Edgar Wallace used in a 1920s Gothic horror story, intriguingly entitled “The Black Abbott”....
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Big Coal’s annus horribilis
2013 was a bad, bad year for Big Coal. If the coal industry’s PR dream is for a stream of exuberant articles...
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Would you consider offering yourself as a candidate?
Week after week in Tasmanian Times, I read excellent and insightful comments in response to the many TT articles that document the...
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Barnett Government’s Shark Cull Program delivers first cruel and barbaric fatality …
In the early hours of yesterday morning the fisherman hired to perform Barnett’s dirty work of killing protected species, went out to...
