Tasmanian Times
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1.1KA happy new year is unlikely …
Eye of the storm … Premier Giddings and financial advisers … The Libs’ strategy is equally facile … One lesson from the...
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Grammar – A Selective Public High School
The public debate on education in Tasmania would appear to follow a tired pattern. A report is published somewhere identifying a subject...
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Potential bidders for Gunns get more time
KORDA MENTHA partner Bryan Webster has extended the deadline for expressions of interest in all or part of Gunns Group to the...
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Martin Gilmour: Here is a quick lesson …
Martin Gilmour in the Sunday Examiner 22- 12- 2013 – under the spurious title “Whistle Blower” – proves that he is indeed...
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The day Australia failed the test of the most basic common decency …
Picture from www.banliveexports.com Yesterday, December 13 2013, The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) granted a permit for 80,000 Australian sheep...
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Why the Tasmanian Fox Eradication Program has been worse than a complete and utter failure
Summary: The 10-year fox eradication program has failed dismally because it was initiated as broadacre poisoning based on flawed data and the...
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Abbott breaks election promise on whales
The Abbott government has abandoned its pre-election promise to send a Customs vessel to monitor Japan’s illegal whaling in the Southern Ocean...
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Bushfires: Little pressure on the state government to show leadership
The Tasmanian Bushfires Inquiry Report The Tasmanian Bushfires Inquiry Report was released in early October and briefly enlivened the public debate about...
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Big Brother is watching … and disseminating your personal data …
Big Brother is on the prowl … quite apart from Edward Snowden’s (and the Guardian’s) consistent whistle-blowing on surveillance comes a first-hand...
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Atrophy
“Promote an expansion of the forest estate by integrating more trees onto agricultural land.” Martin Ferguson, December 2013, secret report commissioned by...
