Tasmanian Times
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912Muffled Voices
In 1914 – long before television, the internet and the 24 hour news cycle – Uruguayan writer José Enrique Rodó published an...
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Tasmanian Forests Disagreement Act 2013
Two Views of a Fork in the Road Tim Thorne’s reflection “La Cave d’Aristide”, was originally published in “The Best Australian Poems...
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Campaigners bear witness to miners moving into World Heritage-value Tarkine
Campaigners are on site to bear witness to the fresh incursion into World Heritage-value wilderness in Tasmania’s Tarkine following the Federal Government’s...
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FSC® Australia welcomes Forestry Tasmania to membership
Melbourne, 9th August, 2013: FSC Australia announced today that it had accepted a membership application from Forestry Tasmania. FSC Australia Chief Executive...
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Party-political ads disguised as official notification?
I am attaching jpg files obtained from scanning Liberal Party electoral material that landed in our letter box this week. I wonder...
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It’s on: Rudd gets the Col shoulder as Murdoch telegraphs his punches
A little over two years ago I wrote in this column that at a gathering in the US of his most senior...
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The underlying problems are twofold
The underlying problems are twofold. 1. Tasmania is almost obsessed with central planning and “all eggs in the one basket” approaches. Simply...
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There is only one conclusion …
Bill McKibben of 350.org has been leading a campaign for divestment from the coal industry, firstly in the United States, a recalcitrant...
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Screaming print media
Julia Gillard, as PM, was up against Tony Abbott, Kevin Rudd, News Limited, the mining industry and the coal lobby. The result...
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How will you determine who to vote for?
#8 David, it is apposite to note that Andrew Wilkie revealed in the Murdoch press this weekend how he had been unfairly...
