Opinion

Whistle Blower with Martin Gilmour

Andrew will come, if the prize is right

Posted: 29 Apr 12 | IT'S hard to believe that no one has thought of the obvious way to get AFL supremo Andrew Demetriou to Aurora Stadium. |

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Power the reward Brown era

Posted: 15 Apr 12 | IT is difficult to assess the exit of Senator Bob Brown from federal politics and what it will ultimately mean for the Greens. |

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Tassie's AFL dream in tatters

Posted: 25 Mar 12 | SOMETIMES it is the inconvenient truth that hurts the most. |

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Cleaning up our water act

Posted: 18 Mar 12 | THE latest report on Tasmania's water quality should convince any remaining sceptics that our water infrastructure needs dramatic help. |

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Harnessing sun makes sense

Posted: 04 Mar 12 | Sometimes Australian politicians leave us breathless by their lack of logic. |

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McKim outburst a step too far

Posted: 12 Feb 12 | POLITICIANS always tread a fine line and judgment under pressure defines the thoroughbreds from the hacks. |

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Shorten may be Labor's step forward

Posted: 05 Feb 12 | JOHN Howard and Julia Gillard have a lot to answer for. If it wasn't for Mr Howard and some of his right-wing zealots, we would not have turned down that ridiculous dead-end track called Work Choices. |

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A year to test MPs' resources

Posted: 29 Jan 12 | While Tasmania isn't due for a state election for another two years, 2012 could well be the defining year for both the state government and the opposition. |

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All bets off as Wilkie's waffle wears thin

Posted: 22 Jan 12 | Hands up if you are sick and tired of Andrew Wilkie. |

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All bets off as Wilkie's waffle wears thin

Posted: 22 Jan 12 | Hands up if you are sick and tired of Andrew Wilkie. |

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Another chief joins Tassie's health tribe

Posted: 15 Jan 12 | Many Tasmanians read with interest about the appointment of Graeme Houghton as the inaugural chairman of the three new Tasmanian Health Organisations. |

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Time for a reality check

Posted: 01 Jan 12 | AS WE head into 2012, it is really time that Tasmania had a reality check. |

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Lights no solution at food intersection

Posted: 12 Dec 11 | IT IS all extremely commendable that federal, state and territory ministers have backed a new food labelling system to help consumers buy healthier food. |

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Challenging views part of our job

Posted: 04 Dec 11 | IT SOMETIMES amazes me that Australians demand rights like freedom of speech and freedom of expression until they read something that they don't like. |

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A week of royalty, too little loyalty

Posted: 27 Nov 11 | IT HAS surely been a case of just enough royalty and too little loyalty in an entertaining week. |

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Yes Minister, it is a crisis

Posted: 08 Nov 11 | It is plain to see that Tasmania's hospital system is imploding and yet Health Minister Michelle O'Byrne insists that there is no crisis. |

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Greens win award from the grandstand

Posted: 01 Nov 11 | IT IS about time that the Tasmanian Parliament embraced the three strikes and you're out rule. |

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Something fishy about investments

Posted: 25 Oct 11 | NORMALLY it takes the Labor-Green state government three days in Parliament to show us that it has no idea _ thanks to the Hobart Show holiday, it only needed two days this week. |

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Luxuries should be focus of government cuts

Posted: 18 Oct 11 | IF THE Tasmanian Labor-Green government is going to claw back any respect from voters, it needs to looks at budget cuts outside health, education and police. |

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