How to stop retirement scaring the bejesus out of your wallet
Retirement can be like a spider landing in your lap when you lower the car’s sun visor at 80kmh, it scares the bejesus out of you. But there are financial strategies you can put in place.
Opinion
‘Hurling urine’ not the way out of lockdown
We all want restrictions to be over but hurling urine at reporters and flying Trump 2020 flags is not the way to achieve it, argues Edwina Bartholomew.
Locals ill at ease with Chinese-backed resort plan
Tasmanians’ nerves have been on edge over a proposed Chinese-backed resort near Swansea. But, as Charles Wooley says, locals might be able to relax a little.
Wind day and bin day is an ugly mix
Why, with such an early and widely known heads-up that the weather was going to be rubbish, do people still put their bins out? Bin days should be changed when the weather is bad. HAVE YOUR SAY >
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Courage from leaders on coronavirus vital
It will require all Australians to take some responsibility to minimise the impact of coronavirus.
Letters to the Editor, March 11, 2020
In your Letters to the Editor today: Tasmanian tourism, duck shooting, and the impact of the coronavirus.
Summer shows why Tasmania must say yes to the Marinus cable
ANTON ROHNER: Say yes to Marinus to pave way for Tasmanian renewable energy developments and jobs
Born into cruelty, Brad has survived despite everything, yet we still fail him
SUE HICKEY: This talented man has worked so hard, yet society has failed him at every turn. Let’s change that.
Gutwein a breath of fresh air for Liberal voters
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Putting the focus back on trades
JEREMY ROCKLIFF: Big jobs growth will be in fields needing vocational skills
Discrimination law shouldn’t make an exception for religion
RODNEY CROOME: Tasmanian minority groups including those with disability will suffer
Coronavirus calm needed in Tasmania
There is no doubt that coronavirus has arrived in Tasmania and it will get worse before it gets better. What is needed now is strong, calm leadership that unites the community to tackle the crisis together.
Letters to the Editor, March 10, 2020
In your Letters to the Editor today: Wombat mange, voluntary euthanasia, and Tasmanian prisons.
Tasmania, you’re disgusting, wash your mouth out
Is the male ego so fragile that it can’t handle a woman making beer? Sexist comments from online trolls prove exactly why we need International Women’s Day.
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