Tasmanian Times
Society
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953Light rail business case fails to show that rail is cheapest option
Community-based public transport advocacy group, Future Transport Tasmania (FTT), today criticized the final report of the Light Rail Business case as it...
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Fear, Inc.: America’s Islamophobia Network
At this time last year, as the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks approached, the country was gripped by a pernicious...
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Criminality and Cruelty: an open letter to Australian parliamentarians
As you are no doubt aware cruelty to animals is a marker of criminal psychopathology in individual perpetrators. Cultures which accept such...
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Rewnewable energy push
TASMANIA should become Australia’s renewable energy state, producing 100 per cent of its own needs and selling clean power to rest of...
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Gunns silent on Giddings’ offer
The state government has confirmed that it has made a commercial settlement offer to timber company Gunns. Premier Lara Giddings said the...
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Forestry Tasmania posts $12m loss … as Gunns compo offer hits the table
Forestry Tasmania has reported its second operating loss in as many years. The state-owned company has recorded an operating loss of $12...
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Throw away the dictionary
Throw away the dictionary. A dictionary’s no help at all if you really want to know what words like “substantial” or “commencement”...
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The Permit: Last minute surprise! And much tortuous detail…
Dear Reader, This article is long, some of it is ‘technical’ and deals with The Pulp Mill Permit. It consists actually of...
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Generation F*cked
The UN’s first ever report on the state of childhood in the industrialized West made unpleasant reading for many of the world’s...
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Lies, promises and mandates
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott routinely denounces Prime Minister Julia Gillard as a liar. He does so with the tacit support, through failure...
