Society

Wilderness: A debate

This house believes that untouched wildernesses have a value beyond the resources and other utility that can be extracted from them. Read...

From within the forest roundtable process …?

Tasmanian Times has received this extract from a letter which purports to be from a participant in the forest roundtable process. We...

Wilkie/Government poker machine reforms unchanged

The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has welcomed the Australian Greens’ continuing interest in poker machine reform. “I’m pleased to see...

Gillard vows to pursue offshore processing

Asylum seekers will be processed in Australia for the foreseeable future, but Prime Minister Julia Gillard says Labor will continue to pursue...

A treasured icon of South Hobart

The South Hobart Progress Association Inc. (SHPA Inc.) has, today, lodged a non-conforming tender with the State Government for the purchase of...

Nothing has changed …

Has anything really changed with the Tasmanian Government’s control over powers they will give inquisitorial processes intended to discover the truth: Deja...

Tasmanian Education Association calls for the reunification of TAFE

A black day for clean safe air, earth and water

On October 10th the Federal Labor government gave BHP Billiton the green light to a $30 billion Olympic Dam expansion which could...

Kidnap inquiry hears of disastrous delay

The Senate inquiry into the kidnapping of Australian citizens overseas heard evidence last night that Bundaberg photo-journalist Nigel Brennan and his Canadian...

Gunns in Hobart Magistrates tomorrow

Lawyers for Pulp the Mill Inc. and Gunns Ltd will appear in the Hobart Magistrate’s Court tomorrow (this Friday, October 14) at...