Tasmanian Times
Society
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1.3KTassie Water: Pure Enough for Roxby Downs?
In the last week the idea of rolling out a water pipeline from Tasmania to Victoria and South Australia has been given...
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Greens remain lone voice calling for MP pay freeze
The Tasmanian Greens today reiterated their call for a pay freeze for all Tasmanian MPs, in light of the imminent increase through...
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Wilkie takes a budget cut to Live Below the Line
Independent member for Denison , Andrew Wilkie, will tomorrow take budget day to a whole new level, feeding himself off just $2...
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The TCCI Board which failed to detect any anomalies …
Andrew Scobie has been excised; he is not a current board member Just who are the TCCI Board members who failed to...
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TCCI apologises to members for big deficit
Tasmania’s main business lobby group is refusing to reveal what led to a $700,000 dollar shortfall in its accounts. The Chamber of...
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Greens’ Whish: My vision …
Economist and winemaker Peter Whish-Wilson has been selected by the Greens to replace former leader Bob Brown in the Senate. Mr Whish-Wilson,...
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Why Tasmania needs me in the Upper House. Does James Sugden support the pulp mill?
Pic: Karen Brown I am standing for the Legislative Council because Tasmania is at a cross-road. The old industries are dying and...
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How to be rid of the party taint
I agree with Peter Needham’s (Mercury, letters, April 13) condemnation of our party-dominated State Assembly and government. Unlike much of Australia and...
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How to Vote Informal in Hobart
The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, provides, at section 245(1), that ‘It shall be the duty of every elector to vote at each...
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Here’s a story to make you see red – or green
Most people would understand that the pet gripe of farmers is unnecessary red tape and that their common enemy is the army...
