Alarms vital to combat fire threat

25 May 12 | All dwellings in Tasmania should be fitted with smoke alarms - proper, hard-wired smoke alarms, and not the cheaper variety that are invariably disconnected because they chirp too much due to battery

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Leaders will look closely at voter poll

15 May 12 | AT some stage this year politicians of the major parties in State Parliament will make a mental note of who they are comfortable with leading them to the 2014 election.

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Case fails to drive sex law reform

11 May 12 | TASMANIAN laws that deal with matters such as the prostitution of a 12-year-old Hobart girl in 2009 are still in a mess and riddled with inconsistencies.

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Letter on the way to non-voters

10 May 12 | The Tasmanian Electoral Commission will shortly issue thousands of please-explain letters to people who didn't vote in last Saturday's Legislative Council elections. |

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Swan budget ignores state woes

09 May 12 | THE federal budget reinforces a growing belief that Tasmania is on its own and must make its own choices. The national nature of federal budgets means that they usually don't single out states for generous treatment.

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Counting the cost of our major banks

04 May 12 | THE emerging factor of the four major banks increasingly determining their own variable interest rates is a worrying trend for financial market movers and shakers like the Federal Treasurer and the Reserve Bank Governor.

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Giddings and Abbott over-share

02 May 12 | OUR state leaders were both wrong-footed yesterday. State Opposition Leader Will Hodgman had to deal with an enormous lapse in discipline from federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, who suggested the GST pool should be distributed on a population share basis. |

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Takeover not healthy long-term

27 Apr 12 | IT is difficult to see what would be gained from a federal takeover of Tasmania's health system, other than better management.

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