Tasmanian football is ‘sick’ and in need of urgent help
Once the strongest sport in the state, football is in serious decline and needs urgent, lifesaving help according to multiple top-level coaches.
Opinion
Wooley: Beware of the P.E.S.T.S.
Post-election-stress traumatic syndrome (PESTS) is a condition frequently suffered by the leaders of political parties in the aftermath of an election. The main symptom is an inability to process the reality that their party didn’t perform very well, writes Charles Wooley
Buttrose: ‘Action is needed now’
Ita Buttrose has said we cannot accept an Australia where we have a gold standard treatment to stop people from going blind — but some can’t access it.
‘A disgrace’: Why the system is failing our young men
Tasmania’s secondary education results are appalling even when compared to the poorest areas interstate — and we are failing boys the most, a university professor says as he offers a solution >>
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Be upfront with public
EDITORIAL: When it comes to decision-making about the leasing of public assets in Tasmanian World Heritage Areas, the public expects the process to be transparent and to stand up to public scrutiny.
Water = power adds up in Tassie
GUY BARNETT: Hydrogen energy could be the state’s next big export industry.
ScoMo took deep hit from inept initial response to bushfires
RANDALL DOYLE: PM faces fate like George W. Bush after Hurricane Katrina
Bulk-billing statistics a horror show
MARTYN GODDARD: digging into the figures and coming up with an uncomfortable reality.
Letters to the Editor, February 12, 2020
In your Letters to the Editor today: Political rorting, UTAS dependence on China, and climate change.
Shorebirds and residents fenced in on Prosser River
LES WOOD: worried about a very special part of Tasmania’s famous East Coast.
UTAS move to city must be debated
JOHN LIVERMORE: many reasons for university’s shift to CBD do not stack up.
Reining in political donations
MAX ATKINSON: takes a pragmatic look at the politics at play in Tasmania in making our democracy less easily bought and sold.
Editorial: Future relies on clear path
Red tape and overregulation are unquestionably bad things and it is the work of good governments to eradicate them, to allow the wheels of commerce to roll more freely.
Letters to the Editor, February 11, 2020
In your Letters to the Editor today: Wind farms, coronavirus, and bushfires.
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