Society

Betty King … first white woman in Australia

In September 1963, the late Henry Shoobridge of Bushy Park, Tasmania, who was a well know local identity and hop grower, placed...

News appoints Matt Deighton as new Mercury editor

MATT Deighton has been appointed editor of the Mercury. The announcement was made yesterday by News Corp Australia’s chief executive, Julian Clarke....

Doubts removal legislation is really democracy removal legislation

Last week the State Government announced that it intended to introduce legislation to remove all doubts regarding the legal validity of the...

An act of little more than foolishness

Dear Legislative Councillors, Tonight (Wed) I attended a meeting in Launceston, with over five hundred other concerned citizens, to bring us up...

How Korda Mentha instructed Premier Giddings to act. The Legislation …

19 September 2013 The Hon Lara Giddings MP Premier of Tasmania Level 11, Executive Building, 15 Murray St, Hobart Tas 7000 Dear...

Aboriginal AFL player Adam Goodes has been named Australian of the Year for 2014

The still unanswered questions about Bob Chappell’s disappearance

• SATURDAY: Andrew Wilkie challenged Brian Wightman and Lara Giddings to call an immediate Commission of Inquiry in front of a large...

Sea Shepherd boxes in whaling fleet; suspends poaching

Saturday January 25, 2014 – Melbourne, Australia — The Sea Shepherd Fleet has once again located the factory vessel of the Japanese...

Asylum-seeker policy could amount to crime

There is a legal argument that the government has a case to answer at the International Criminal Tribunal over its treatment of...

Bass Strait: What we need is action

The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, the Productivity Commission Draft Report into Tasmanian Shipping and Freight “I welcome the release of...