Tasmanian Times
Society
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914Hospital budgets to be cut by new pricing scheme
Less than she would have hoped … Tasmanian Health Minister Michelle O’Byrne Tasmania’s public hospitals stand to lose up to $80.7 million...
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Police to merge districts, cut senior jobs
Cost-cutting …? A speed camera disguised as a builder’s trailer. Pic: Rob Walls, http://robertwalls.wordpress.com/ Costly … ! The now-mothballed MV Fortescue Tasmania’s...
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Council mergers shot down
Earlier: A Tasmanians for Reform rally at Parliament, here A NEW report on local government reform in the North has knocked council...
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Maybe commonsense will eventually prevail here too
In the week that the carbon tax came into force, the Australian Government has released a survey commissioned last year to assess...
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Forester accuses Institute of Foresters of skewing forests report
A member of the Institute of Foresters of Australia (IFA) has criticised the organisation for misrepresenting his work in its critique of...
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Australian prostitution laws helping Korean human traffickers
State government laws endorsing prostitution and brothels are being used by human traffickers to entice young Asian women into the trade, according...
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This is the way the world ends …
The Hollow Men (1925), a poem by T. S. Eliot (Wikipedia here) We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men...
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Back off Walsh, says Brown
A TAX Office lawsuit seeking $37 million in back taxes from MONA founder David Walsh could cast a shadow over plans to...
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South Korean whaling plan condemned
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has condemned a South Korean move to begin whaling and has instructed Australia’s top diplomat in Seoul to...
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Simon Overland named new Tasmanian Secretary of Justice
Simon Overland named new Tasmanian Secretary of Justice Peter Rolfe Herald Sun July 04, 2012 4:40PM FORMER Victoria Police chief Simon Overland...
