Tasmanian Times
Society
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1.0K$2.08 million to keep Supercars racing
The future of the popular V8 Supercars at Symmons Plains has been guaranteed for the next three years, the Premier Lara Giddings...
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Gillard’s grief
PM’s Abbott solution falters JULIA Gillard could be forced to accept onshore processing of asylum-seekers because of a political deadlock over legislation...
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Geoff’s Best Reads
Every fortnight on Tasmanian Times, widely-read Geoff Dickinson chooses Six of the past fortnight’s Best Reads. Ancient Mining Site in Romania May...
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A failure to acknowledge, let alone disclose
DPIPWE’s response to my Right to Information request (On TT, HERE) in regard to the issue of “substantial commencement” fails to disclose...
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Greens to move in Parliament on marriage equality
The House of Assembly will vote this week on a Greens motion that would see the Tasmanian Parliament become the first in...
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Residual Residue
The system of Tasmanian government, with its weak parliament, its ineffectual representative democracy, its timid caucus-hugging party careerists and woodchip corporate minions,...
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Attacking the High Court judges
But this Court is not a Parliament of policy; it is a court of law. Judicial method is not concerned with the...
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Reining in the Mobile phone tower monsters
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has acted to give the community a greater say on the building of mobile phone...
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C’est la guerre…or such is life…
David Hicks posing with an RPG launcher in Bosnia The six-year internment of David Hicks at Guantanamo Bay still inspires heated argument...
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Cause and effect of Gunnerment
In 2007 Steve Kons MP was caught lying to the Tasmanian Parliament, and the next day one Tasmanian woke up and realised...
