Libs' pillar talk nothing new, man

Posted: 23 May 12 | The state opposition is borrowing heavily from Queensland premier Campbell Newman's play book. |

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An episode of Giddings’s Anatomy

Posted: 20 May 12 | THE gurney was thrust down the hospital corridor at pace, a blurred bustle of scrubs following like a comet tail. |

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Proverbial hits the fan over satire

Posted: 13 May 12 | AS POLITICAL mud fights go This was an extra dirty show, A real humdinger of a flinger. |

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Giddings fighting a lost battle

Posted: 06 May 12 | THERE comes a point in a football flogging when even the best of coaches loses his players. Usually around three-quarter time. |

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Gillard on a slippery slope

Posted: 29 Apr 12 | IT STARTED with the Prime Minister losing her second slipper since Australia Day and ended in farce. |

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Block the budget? Don't be daft!

Posted: 25 Apr 12 | Blocking the budget to fix health is at best a dumb idea. |

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Posted: 24 Apr 12 | Health system needs the type of reform that involves creative thinking; an exchange of radical ideas between stakeholders who all understand the current model is stuffed - not just budget cuts. |

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Integrity Commission a gummy watchdog

Posted: 19 Apr 12 | IMAGINE a police force without the power to hold someone for questioning. That's Tasmania's Integrity Commission. |

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Cut the recession obsession

Posted: 17 Apr 12 | WHY are our politicians suddenly so obsessed as to whether or not Tasmania is in a recession? |

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A scent of desperation by any name

Posted: 15 Apr 12 | ''Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not Gunns. |

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Let's stop cosseting our kids

Posted: 25 Mar 12 | IT MUST be tough to be a kid these days. Wrapped so tightly in cotton wool you can actually taste the stuff, jumping at grim reaper shadows everywhere you look, safe only when you are seat-belted to the family couch watching the TV - as long as there's nothing on it. |

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