Category Articles - History

Beaming ...

Doing the Climate Maths with Bill McKibben

'WHA forests logging ended'

C cell misses out on RDA funding

US fatally persists with common law

Why I’m Not Drinking The Water

Tasmania scraps fox baiting program

A health issue, not a criminal one. MLCs delay bill

Special Timbers: The Broken Business Model

Understanding Budgets: A Better Way

DHHS surveillance on poisoned Rosebery patients must stop

Plantations and Forest Stewardship Council Audits

Nine dead, 60 missing in another asylum tragedy

A glorious lawyer-driven revolution

To Save Our Planet ? … People Power !

Liberals question land deal 'kickbacks' for ex-Premier

Mines contaminate 40 Tasmanian rivers

Will the Toxic Dump get its Funding?

Simplot closure threat

Royal Assent of Tasmanian Forest Agreement Bill is a right royal mess

Green light for light rail

FT's slash and burn culture is changing ... ?

The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’

Centenary of Powered Flight in Tasmania

Sunny uplands

Andrew Mellon and the lessons for Australia

An Australian Peregrine

Corruption in the Chancery Court

Monsanto: Russia warns Obama

Countless millions of sawlog tonnes smashed, chipped, wasted ...

The Question of Bass Strait

The Mining Boom is over. Is farming the next boom ... ?

The asbestos fiasco

Pell: Abortion is bigger sin than priest abuse

A story founded entirely upon a myth

Ta Ann v Swift Parrot ...?

Withhold Royal Assent

Silence on peace deal is telling

Undermining due process

Climate Change Alarmism as a Moral Responsibility

Australia’s greenhouse gas reduction targets are being reviewed

Greens introduce bill for independent Office of Animal Welfare

Pell mell ...

The first duty of every government: namely, to preserve the nation’s finances

Unscrupulous Business in a Broken Landscape

Our national parks must be more than playgrounds or paddocks

Most UK species in decline, wildlife stocktake shows

The gay community's struggle for equality

The Next War Won’t Have Guns

A critical issue about conflict of interest and the independence of CMW

Our cry from the heart ... the pictures

Health status of West Coast residents needs answers

Building a strong, prosperous Tasmania

Legacy of Bush's war?

Brown v Adair, Crean in Sarawak ...

Forest deal 'greenmails' the green groups

A myth driven by the woodchip industry

Pokies: Woeful arguments of Bacon and Rockliff

FSC meets TAP: A Citizen's Report

World Heritage body advises against Labor nomination

Make your vote count

Crikey: Sydney spinners sail to King Island for anti-turbine fight

Austerity pitfalls and alternatives

Greens hit by rising internal strife

Origin of the adversary system

State poll shows more voters undecided

The ‘blackmail provisions’ in the TFA Act

New footage of cruelty to Australian livestock

Silence!

We sentence you to Ten Days on the Island

Hey, PAL

Forestry Tasmania will clearfall vital swift parrot habitat on Bruny Island

Tasmanian Farmer locks the gate on miners

Minister needs to show leadership on feed-in tariffs

Fear and Freedom

Antarctic funding good first step but doesn't go far enough

The cartel rejects truth

When Your Playlist Dates You

Papuan Voices Hobart Screening - Introduced by Bob Brown

Historic Tasmanian Aboriginal land purchase

Bob Gordon quits

Mary meets Lara

Sea Shepherd launches Operation Relentless, its 10th Antarctic whale defence campaign

Richard Denniss: The Poison Pill. Tom De Kadt: Nothing to lose

'Wither and Die'

Dear Richard (2),

Dear Richard (1),

I don't agree

No more chances - Live exports must be banned

Why Tasmania's Upper House election was a step forward for marriage equality

The complex procedures Tasmania will have to hurry its way through

Bees Survival: Ban More Pesticides?

Lessons from Senator Hubert Humphrey

Bushfire Inquiry

Why we voted for the Bill. Silence, says Gillard. Never, says Milne

Christine Milne: ‘Picking over a dead carcass’

Booth crosses floor as peace deal passes

The Feed-In Tariff/Aurora debate ...

Tonight I watched Four Corners ...

Bob Brown: a refutation

EU to ban pesticides linked to bee deaths

God help us in a world infused with anger

Can’t you just see Bob walking towards you, in your mind’s eye?

Origin of the investigative system

Balance is appeasement. Fairness is truth ...

The Council's Torpedo

I'll save Tasmania, says Clive

The Dismal Science

Gellibrand: The Amazing Son of Tasmania

Legacy of another war ... ?

Funded fox-hunts continue in Tasmania … but for how long?

Stock, standard licious

The Substantially Built Mill

Sarawak Report: “Forced To Become Coolies In Their Own Lands”

Special Timbers sector 'would be gutted'. Mulder passes. Wreckers, says Milne. Bill passes

1000 Letters and Counting

Pulp mill dreaming

A monumental failure of regulatory authority ... ?

Organised criminals start common law

To Sing Among Stars

Bob McMahon ...

Banned super-trawler in new troubled waters

Tasmania, Tourism and the Elephant in the Room

Dr Bob Brown announced as new patron of rebranded Tarkine campaign

Kidney disease is Tassie's 'silent killer'

Veils and Tin Hats

Veils and Tin Hats

Childhood lead exposure linked to crime in adulthood

Sea Shepherd welcomes World Court date. James Price Point ...

Leatherwood: A business struggling to survive, because of ...

Hobart Baroque: The long-cherished dream becomes reality ...

Forestry burns causing havoc for Smithton residents

Greens: End $13 billion fossil fuel subsidies for big mining companies

Public rally to support the Tasmanian mining industry

John Howard still misleading over Iraq fiasco

Clean, green Tassie ... sewage and oysters. Brand 'in peril'

The Bill will now go to the Upper House

Gunns liquidator to sell timber plantations

A Firey Spectacular

Tigers in The Weld: The Sequel

PAL: Redressing the injustice

What is justice?

Japan Confirms Sea Shepherd Success in the Southern Ocean

Logging of World Heritage nominated forest in the Tyenna halted by peaceful protest

Revealed: The real conditions on live export ships

So, what is Easter ... ?

FSC must be obtained, and peace demonstrated

FSC International and Tasmania: Irreconcilable Issues and Values

Alex Schaap was incorrect

PM apologises to forced adoption victims

New anti-corruption commission No. 1 on the election agenda

The metaphorical fox in Tasmania

Economic Sustainability – I Think Not!

The Greens should be Hot Favourites!

The Great NBN fail

Tonight: 60 Minutes to Cover Sue Neill-Fraser Case

Fishy Business at John Curtin House Ltd ...

Police probe Observer Tree fire

ANDREW WILKIE: A STATEMENT REGARDING THE IRAQ WAR

Andrew Wilkie: A statement regarding the Iraq War

Backstory: Greens secure sawmiller access to special species logs

Wildfire ends Miranda's vigil. Brown fire probe call

Bruny: 3-Day Indigenous Music, Arts and Culture festival

Tasmania, let's spare a thought for the ducks

Giddings knew Gunns was insolvent

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez dies aged 58

Property Council welcomes population target

How to make Government media releases disappear

How to be happy ... with less

The Underbelly of Forestry Tasmania. Julia pledge on pulp mill

The Unbelievable Charade

Gina Rinehart's plans to destroy Cape York

The mining boom has not been a win-win

Wreckers

1080 poisoning continues despite no foxes

Sea Shepherd ships damaged in fight for whales

Copping landfill: The Potential for Catastrophe

State forest revoked to benefit Gunns pulp mill. Bad news for creditors

Labor-Greens State Government still sending jobs to mainland

Legal obligations and course of action on World Heritage logging outlined

Lost ... without the pulp mill ...

Water, water ...

Tipping Point ... ?

Australian Democracy at the Crossroads

A lack of confidence in the integrity of the Upper House

What is a Small Mine?

A Plea for Help from Stawell Victoria

Ombudsman Refuses Release of Gunns Pulp Mill Appendices

Destroy the better mousetrap

Toll road through wilderness

Government must verify whaling claims

Will we Bite the Bullet and Buy the Rusich?

Israel's 'Prisoner X' was Australian Mossad agent, documentary claims

Pulp Friction - Fact not Fiction

South Vicmania? North Tastoria? Why merging three Australian states is a bad idea

Vandemonian Dreaming

Same sex please, we're British

A Deeper Level of Denial

Solution to the Tasmanian Fox Saga

Burke’s listing fails to deliver protection for the Tarkine

The Great Dry

Magdalene laundries: Ireland accepts state guilt in scandal

The hope Jon West rejects

Democratic hemlock: saving earth from our animal selves

So did I

Something had to give ...

Wilkie: Shrill Barnett's 'beggar state' needs freight fairness

Former RSPCA CEO withdraws claim

A Greenwash

Tasmania’s Forcett Fire 2013 – 16 questions

Intelligence-Led Policing? Not in Tasmania. The Sue Neill-Fraser Case

Memory in Stone

ANZ and National Trust Mortgaging Tasmania's Heritage

Tasmanian Forestry Agreement: The Real Issue

Coronial inquest sought in Chappell case

You Can't Trust the Trust

The Tree-sitters: Designing a habitat on high

Sustainable forestry (2)

What Mining Executives Do Not Tell Us

B Marriott Watson. English Novelist. Time to remember him

Call for debate on timing of Australia Day

Sue Neill-Fraser Case: Call-Taking and Recording. Doorknocking ...

Australia Day

In Their Own Words: Fossil fuel subsidies, MRRT, homophobia

Timber looks to bailouts, concessions to ward off undertakers

Harsh lessons of a bushfire horror

The Burning Question

Climate Change: It’s time to speak up …

Oprah: Armstrong 'met the moment' with admission

Tarkine mines could be last straw for Tasmanian devils

Climate change: not a civilized problem

Cow of a time for Gunns

Dead-tree media and the battle to control online content

The Grime Behind the Crime

Extreme temperatures by the end of the century. The hoax we had to have

Green arrogance burns fiercely

Les Dick pledges Defender repair

The New Normal

The tragedy of West Papua

Joy, Love, Paradox ...

Business as usual for Ta Ann

What Miranda missed most ...

Mercury: Airport plunge fails super fund

Reason and passion on Israel

Why the world didn't end yesterday

Top Australian Paper Details Taib’s Greed!

Not before Christmas ...

Greens to Push for Tasmanian World Heritage Interpretation Centre

Plan C: No to TFA 2

In their own words; Milne on DOHA

The end of another climate conference ...

A story of two Tasmanians

Peaceful Protest - An evening discussion with Ian Cohen

Give sustainability a chance: Tasmanian Forests Agreement in perspective

A win-win result for all Tasmanians

Was it a ...?

The $105bln bill for Sarawak cultural genocide

Wisdom from Hector the Protector

The party interest

Sea Shepherd and the Antarctica, Galapagos and Kimberley Campaigns

Aussie campaign against Hydro Tasmania in Sarawak

The publicly-funded Tallship rusting and rotting in Qld

The Great Power Play

That's typical dumb-arse Labor for you!

Tasmanian Fine Furniture – A Distinctive Language of Style

Do We Have A Trawler For You!

Bridging The Great Divide

Open letter to Julia Gillard, Lara Giddings

Evan Rolley on the record ...

Lara’s Gambit

Unmourned death of a sole survivor

A solution to the forestry wars: Am I wrong about this?

Keating urges Australia to focus on Indonesia

Great toilet tour

Forestry Tasmania: Forensic audit call unheeded

Simply locking up forests is a recipe for disaster

Remembrance, Memory and Silence: Forgetting a Larrikin Tasmanian Digger

Open letter to the Premier

The hero at the heart of the Royal Commission

Groundswell shuts down Ta Ann veneer mill. More on the Sarawak connections ...

The suppression of our animality ... and its terrible consequences. The Royal Commission

Cash for Containers: A Solution to Pollution Choking Tasmania’s Clean Image

Premier Giddings' opening of Brighton bypass insensitive

The Wacky World of Tasmanian Liberal Forest Policy

Quamby – The Trashing of Aboriginal History

Forestry Tasmania: Wilful deception and crass incompetence

Rosevears Pub, Thursday, Nov 1: Tasmanian Times' Tasmanian of the Year ...

Earlier this year Ta Ann was revealed as a loss-making dog. Now?

GetUp! targets Bunnings, Harvey Norman. But it aint over ...

Brighton´s open Hand

Mart day

A foot soldier

Tasmanian mining talks collapse

Winds of change for pulp mill site

What future for the mountain?

Is photography becoming a crime?

Rail action group takes the train to the Royal Hobart Show

Another digger dies ...

Mundine slammed for Geale slur

Tasmanian company under pressure for human rights violations

Saying sorry

1080 baiters move into Tranmere

The duty of politicians to principles, not mob rule

Amos bells the feral cats

Inquiry not needed. MLC 'hate' campaign uncalled for

The Sirolli silence

It's time to look forward

How to enjoy a mountain

And we thought that the worst atrocities had already happened

How to enjoy a mountain

Shock waves of a food crisis

Gunns: The morning after

Tonight: Mt Wellington; Public Forum To Encourage Management Plan Submissions

Sirolli who?

Bad boys and tattoos

The legal ambush that sank marriage equality

Gunns drawn amid immense hostility

Councils united in battle. 'Unhelpful media language'

A disaster for the taxpayer. Change focus ...

The Bounder, Thomas

Earth rising

Tasmania's divisive timber mill project reduced the mighty Gunns to a pulp

The Silence of the Lambs

Let us hope the days of the cargo cult are over

GUNNS: APPOINTMENT OF VOLUNTARY ADMINISTRATOR

China seeking stake in VDL dairy

Rutting beasts and Cory Bernardi

Locked Up or Locked Out?

Out of the ashes: The New Floz

Camp Florentine as Tasmanian Forest Icon

Caught out

Greens vow on super trawler campaign. Responses to Dr Wadsley/Opinions. Dr Wadsley's response

McCall: Set aside the IGA and the Roundtable. Green puts his foot down

Fight to the death. Chairman Miles jumps ship. What Miles said. Nick McKim

From the sublime to the shamefully ridiculous – the Unrepresentative Swill on Vikki Riley

If a child of an addict could ask the Federal Group why ... ?

Was Australia intended as a hemp colony?

The man on the mountain

Tasmania's toxic time bomb

Ombudsman busts AFMA ... Wilkie complaint upheld

Tasmanian Cronyism: the more things change, the more they remain the same

Scale back: the corporate lessons of Tasmania’s forestry debacle. Forest carbon ...

‘Cargo cult’ mentality is not an economic development policy

And the first ... shall be last

Five diggers killed

Liberals' Nixon Report - 15 years ago - warned of forestry collapse

City Talks: An urban design seminar series

20 years of the Australian Greens

Cygnet: Now you see it ... now you don't

Loving Our Democracy

Bryan the Bashful versus the Nome King

Steele Rudd ... and the Last Days of The Mill

Neil Armstrong's death should be a wake-up call for the world

'Myths', says Forestry Rob in response to 'work for the dole'. Forest Industry 'Duplicity'

Forestry Tasmania must face reality. Obendorf: The Last Elephant

The Pulp!

Fine; we can all relax. Can we?

The Pulp ...

UK 'threatens' to raid Ecuador embassy over Assange

Turnbull's eloquence shows up the pitbull

Ken Henry says quality of public policy debate is at its worst in 25 years

Crook as Maggoty Mutton

Dealing with FT: John Powell's tortuous saga (includes all articles)

Looking through the rose-coloured glass

The Murdochratic State

Here comes the sun: chilling verdict on a climate going to extremes

D-Day Today: Decision or Deferral or Dead. The Cost. And another pause ...

The Mysterious Art of the Ross Bridge

Smart Traveller: Franklin rafting takes No.1 spot

Certainty on climate change, while one sceptic has a turnaround

Defining ‘Waste’ In Old Growth Forests

Arrogance, hypocrisy and wilful ignorance

Mercury has left the building ...

Cash handouts and Greens attacks fail to stop Labor vote slump

Le Tour: The Tragedy beneath the Triumph

Tassie Gems

Corruption: The true Tasmanian Heritage Industry

Springs plan better than a cable car

Find me ...

My encounter with Michael Hirst

Sink this shocking plan. John Hawkins: Please respond, Mr Geen

Ta Ann-backer Abetz visits Sarawak. Sarawak People tell Ta Ann to go

Cut down The Triffid. Pokie barons plunder carbon compo money

Devils: Please quit the stalling process

Green Left TV

50 years on and still rocking…

Political donations: campaign for reform

Joan Brown, Shell Necklace Maker

Push v Pull: The Morality of Offshore Processing

Milestone for Humankind

Franklin River Brings Global Accolade – Bob Brown “delighted”

Lonny in trouble ... again. Libs pledge to dredge

The best we can do here in Tasmania is plan to adapt

Back2Mac

Saving Ancanthe

Vandals incorporated

Sea Shepherd: Here comes Sam Simon

Environmental activists 'being killed at rate of one a week'

U.S. Crimes Against Humanity?

A canary in a coal mine

Wanna buy a dam?

Does the 2010 election herald a return to Van Diemen’s Land?

Dr Warwick Raverty: Many acts of bullying and intimidation in CSIRO

The End of Growth ... as Greece teeters

Many minders make much work

Outside the tent

Lance: Can it be true ... ?

Mineral Council voice in the debate

Here we go again ...

Renewing Scotland ... and Tasmania?

'The Truth is Out'

Perceptions and how they shape our lives

Just to our North ... a horror story unfolds

Ghost Story #1

Leave Our Park Alone

Chronicle 66: That naughty Michael West

Does the Lord Mayor trust his ratepayers

Tarkine Heritage must not be vandalised: Brown

Toe the line, or you don't work in Tasmania

Fears over devil habitat

Oh frabjous day!

More proof needed for Gunns 'equity offer'. What The Ex says ...

Murdochs: 'Not a fit person'. 'Wilfully ignorant'

Gunns: Is it all over, Red Rover? 5pm: The Company requests that its suspension from trading ...

Sad sail days

The Great Joy

Forestry Tasmania – A Compelling Case for Reform

Is the thylacine still out there?

Greens cry wolf on Integrity Commission

Lest we forget about what?

My slant on Anzac Day

An Anzac Story – Finding the Nurses in Sumatra

More bizarre pulp mill land titles - the depth limitation

The Tasmanian Integrity Commission has welcomed amendments ...

Petition to save George Town's historic Regent Square

Beyond our shores

Wrong country ...

The case of Julian Assange: do constitutional principles matter?

Alone, alone, all all alone: Limited Genetic Diversity Preceded Extinction of the Tasmanian Tiger

Dear Bazzabee: A little more history ...

Snipe from the trenches ... or enlarge the vision

First Australians were engineers, house-builders

Adventures in Wonderland

Mill: The Arrogance and Intransigence

Race to find financier as Gunns pulp mill faces uncertain future

Attacked by Vandals. Found! New roading, logging and burning in HCV forests

IGA deal must deliver on forest biodiversity as well as new reserves

Who is Professor Jonathan West?

West: Fatally flawed

Tasmanian Roots

The Fox Files Uncut

Advance, Tasmania fare!

Winning the Vogel can change your life

World's first Greens Party turns 40

The Rogue Agency

In Cygnet, the philistines are on a roll

Paul Harriss MLC should resign. Questions which must be answered

Mr Tambourine Man

Why the Environmental Movement Is Not Winning

Gunns White Knight gallops off

Duck rescuers set to join the frontline

Greens Congratulate Sea Shepherd, Condemn Government on Whaling

Neither genius nor monster. Wayne Swan. Bob Brown

Oil reserves shift global markets ... or do they?

Planet Earth: The Palmer prognosis

Many desperate Afghans are also looking for an exit

Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless

Apology to the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community

Time for new Aboriginal heritage legislation (Part 2 of 3)

If Kevin Rudd wins today ...

Time for new Aboriginal heritage legislation (Part 1 of 3)

HCC and Conflict of Interest

Journalism's historic battle: safeguarding a liberal press

Austral Reflections

All about bums on toilet seats

Testosterone scars ...

How Labor and FT ignored my pleas over the trashing of history

I must be confused about the date ...

Why the role of our Head of State is important

Species dying out on Labor's watch

1792: Growing when D'Entrecasteaux explored the Huon

We know our place now ...

TODAY, TOMORROW: Tasmania Over Five Generations: Return to Van Diemen’s Land?

Brickworks closure creates housebuilding opportunities

A Million Horses: Hydro’s powerful heritage

On Australia Day ...

Reduced to a number on a map ...

Travels around Tasmania with some latte sippers

The Chronicle 64: Waiting for the paper

Measures of leadership: Reflections on Robert S. McNamara

The Barbarians may not be at the gates ...

Are the Barbarians at the gates ... (1)

Are the Barbarians at the gates ... (2)

Warning to the ANZ

Trail bikers find suspected Tasmanian Tiger skull

The Chronicle 63: James A. Jones

Ancanthe ... all that will be lost

Forestry: A Modus Operandi

The Tale of Two Forests

My heart is breaking

Anzac Day 'brand' anger

Ancanthe Park subdivision approval demonstrates state planning laws are undemocratic

Crean plan exposes loophole

No Christmas Peace in Papuan West New Guinea

Susannah’s Angel

Expansive with the truth ...

Richard Tuffin's Romania Report

Space development the key to our survival

Something borrowed ...

Dire Straits ... for the mill? Ta Ann fears ...

Crean's approved plan faces appeal

The Bravest Man I Ever Knew

Is the World Really Safer Without the Soviet Union?

Tasmanian prehistoric fossil confirms tusked mammal ancestor

Has the forestry industry really moved on?

Dam approval angers Aborigines

Heralding an End to Indonesia's War of Occupation

The high cost of power (2)

Out with the lot of them

Toxic group's call for reforms on regulation of contaminated sites

The Genocide on our doorstep. Do we care?

How Lennon, Rolley and Gordon flogged the softwood resource

Rape Used as Military Weapon

Heritage Council: Who were the other applicants?

Forestry Tasmania's arrogant trashing of Aboriginal and settler history

New Tasmanian Heritage Council Chair ... and conflict of interest

Jan Davis, you are wrong

Gillard’s word is being trashed, along with magnificent forests

Remembering Eureka

Scientific Heresy

As Labor puts the Slipper in, Tess remembers an admired predecessor

Those South Pacific Cane Cutters

Henry Savery ... and The Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Tarkine: State must act

Obama: China reacts angrily. Watch Obama live

Lest We Forget: the need to morally justify Afghanistan

Parks and Wildlife Service a bit coy about the truth

Observing Remembrance Day: a personal reflection

Armistice Day: A Tasmanian Remembrance Story

Red Dog

Wilderness man and paradise now long gone

Money lenders not the only people who get rich at the expense of those who labour

Ignoring gen Y while the world sleepwalks to catastrophe

Another three Diggers die

Greens take a right step in Labor waltz

What Arab Revolutions?

Tassie Integrity Commission a toothless tiger. SA goes for a tiger

Queen 'orders' Gillard to make Australia a republic

Janet Albrechtsen’s Jurisprudence

Health: My experience of Lara

HCC must knock this obscene plan on the head

A treasured icon of South Hobart

Why this subdivision must be refused ...

Terrorists, sex and violence: cowards ruled, heroes overruled

Red Zone Baghdad

Pedder Dreaming – Olegas Truchanas and a lost Tasmanian wilderness

Wriedt in council bid

Harold Evans: 'Rupert Murdoch is the stiletto ... a cold-eyed manipulator'. Paywall looms

Gunns at the mercy of the market. Permits: Booth lash. Logging goes on

Geoff's Best Reads

C’est la guerre…or such is life…

Julia enlists the Barty Massage Merchant

After September 11: Our State of Exception

Selling West Papua to buy Peace with Indonesia ~ Realpolitik or Terrorism?

From the Ashes

Epitaph for Another September 11

Thoughts in the Presence of Fear

Get out of Afghanistan

Tasmania’s Fox Scat Degradation Study. Eco-disaster fear ...

The Green Oration

Not guilty: Tassie tiger absolved of killing sheep

Wealth creation: Surface appearance and reality

Technology blues

Photo withdrawn after child prostitution claim

Another digger dies

Eschew the imagination of a Wettex and save the pulp mill

Tampa ... and the loss of Labor's soul

The crisis of the global economy. Was it a planned disintegration?

Red Dog ... and Me. Don't miss Kimisis

Flying in the face of old age: Buck and Joan in the Wars

Walking in the footsteps of Archbishop Romero

'Not a likely scenario son'

An afternoon at Inveresk

Potosí: Tribute to a city and a work of art

High Farce

The Question ...

Cadellllllllllllllllll !

First Step

‘The mountain that eats men alive’

Retired Brigadier Neil Weekes MC throws down the gauntlet

Jim's Tasmania tarnished, says Honey

The Sadim Touch

Dear Mr Wightman, please tell us ...

What really happened in the 1980s and where are we now?

Carbon Dating

Hardwired humans: Why we act as we do ...

How Australia can solve its asylum seeker 'problem'

43.7 million displaced: a reality beyond politics

Call for Heritage Council Review and roles given to the City Council

Where a wild-dog lives

Terror: Why not nail all the perpetrators?

If they loved the ordinary bush ...

Chile judge orders Pablo Neruda death probe

Channelling Edouard Manet

Lost in the Forests

A Cry from the Heart: Zimbabwe

Here one day, gone the next

More Diggers die

History teaches us: We learn nothing from history

Threatened Species Day 2011 – Commemorating the last Tasmanian tiger

The Black Flagging of Parliament

A Forestry roadmap. More on the Black Flag rally, tomorrow

Jubilation in Moneygall

Betancourt speaks to SBS

Half-cocked Feds stumped by heritage permit

Just how far out of touch is bureaucracy in Tasmania?

Queen offers sympathy to Irish victims of troubles

Real Native Forest Blackwood

A Reference for David Bartlett

Franklin River fiasco: A response

Bleak outlook for former inn

What The Chaser told the Queen

Why are US presidents so keen to be Irish?

Abolish the Legislative Council

God ’elp us all!

The Passing of Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Aussie, Christian or universal values?

Thinking About Anzac 2011

ANZAC Day as a Day for Peace

Flying in the Face of Old Age (9): One Victorious Crocodile and Two Dead Pigs

The Life of David Hume

When is Anzac Day again?

Returning from Kutalayna

Brighton Bypass: Monday, April 18

Last permit for Brighton bypass

Premier Giddings and Army Deputy Chief launch new books

Criminalising gay parenting

And all the time I thought we were living in a democracy

Objective News

Crack Hardy

Can journalists ever be heroes? Is journalism worth dying for?

Tasmanian Government joins Mercury Fight

Sissies returns! Flying in the Face of Old Age (8)

Stunning Tasmanian archaeological discovery

The extraordinary assault on Andrew Bolt and freedom of speech

Convict boat exhibit pulls crowd

The failure to think

murundak - songs of freedom

Pulp mill NO – modern forestry policy YES!

Convict built boat remains salvaged and displayed

Save 10 Murray Supreme Court appeal

The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World

Can we restore the rainforests?

Tasmanian Heritage Icon Gets Poked in the Eye

Still Wild Still Threatened opposes Brighton Bypass in support of Tasmanian Aboriginal community

Do not mention the ...

Bypass legal bid fails

In Defence of Fort Direction. Defended, says Bushby

Save the Golden Fleece Inn ... and they have

Where does Lara start ... try at the top

Morality, politics and asylum-seekers

TASMANIA VETERAN DESCENDANTS

The great Sea Shepherd victory ...

The Secret Genocide

Aurora: The wisdom of hindsight...

The Future for N E Forestry

Secret Genocide, by Daniel Pedersen

People at the Crossroads

More than Bombs and Bandages

Mubarak goes. Obama's praise. Aussie present at Mamdouh Habib torture

As dozens of Tasmanian RBF jobs go ... meet RBF's new best friend ...

The Chronicle 59: In New Media is Grub Street reborn

Naomi Oreskes - Merchants of Doubt

Origin of News Agencies

A very News Corp Daily

Confiscate Howard’s literary proceeds of crime

Death of the Doc

Islamists waiting in the Arab streets

‘Yes we’re still a monarchy but it’s not my fault’

Will West Papuans now get to vote on their Freedom?

Change the Flag!

Feds OK Brighton Bypass: A recent chapter of a very old story ...

Climate Action Hobart supports the Brighton campaign

The World's First Green Party

This arrogant, selfish game of Russian Roulette. Mole Creek landslip.

Nietzsche and the will to power

Buck and Joan Emberg caught in Queensland!

The Lost City of Dwarka; Rewriting our Common History

Democracy's Napster Moment

The Chronicle 57: Newspaper heaven in the platteland

Wrecking ball fears for old fort

The Chronicle 56: Fleet Street at work and play

More of Arnold's War ...

Flying in the Face of Old Age (7): Yank Hating Cop and Pig Dogs on White Utes

One minute to midnight: The Brighton By-pass ...

Chronicle 55: Life and death in black and white

Bypass war looks lost

Bob Brown, Poet

The Queenstown Series (4)

Flying in the Face of Old Age (6): The Cop Who Hated Yanks

The Chronicle 53: The Wetstone

Off the rails ...

Rob's Working Life on The Road ...

Flying in the Face of Old Age (5): Counting the Miles and The Troubles

The aggressive chemical push ... and its long-term consequences

Fairfax plans fundamental shift from print future. Goodbye local subs ...

Accolades for Aird

The Queenstown Series (1)

Oldest known stone axe found in Arnhem Land ... Older than Brighton?

Island Earth calls for Commonwealth Action on Space Development

Where the Wild Was Saved ... Don't miss TODAY ...

Flying in the Face of Old Age (4): I Hear The Call of the Road Today

A Tragic Dance

State of the Unions: Construction union snubs ALP. Harkins takes the reigns

The Afghanistan Debate

Ken Wriedt: A life

Senator Abetz - Statement to the Senate

Decline, fall and rebirth. 'Lobotmised' Labor's poll slump and Green rise

Eaarth ... a review

Apology to the West Papua people

Greens continue to call for Jordan River Bridge alternatives

Montgomery Park in Coningham is still running

'How to eradicate foxes' in 2003

Longford: Peace in our time

Tribute to Ken Wriedt

LONGFORD: Save the Hub of our Village!

Asylum seeker announcement a major policy shift: Advocates

Agreement on 35 Seat House of Assembly

Brighton: Feds may intervene

Opera great Joan Sutherland dies

Foxes: Are they or aren't they? (Part 1)

Life as textile

WARRA: The Full Story ...

What happened on Illawarra Rd in 2001?

Cultural heritage backs Brighton bypass

No 'nasty political witch-hunts' from watchdog

Andrew Wilkie's maiden address to Parliament

Meander Valley Council joins the philistines

A Cry from the Heart: Why?

The Chronicle 51: Le Coq d'Or

South Pole Centenary

But Where Is The Fox? Nine years on. Ivan Dean's 'great concern'

What ever happened to the Loony Left?

Gillard to weigh in on bypass

Flying in the Face of Old Age (1): Gateways to Ageing

The Secret World of Sarees

Chronicle 50: Bentley meets Sarah ...

As a gay man this pope annoys me. As an historian he now angers me ...

Afghanistan: new US policy favours reconciliation

Are the Tasmanian Greens losing heart?

Tarkine National Heritage under threat

Reflecting on 9/11

A lucrative contract ...

Afghanistan: the supposed threat to national security

Chronicle 48: A master of the written word

Freefall: free markets and the sinking of the global economy

Aboriginal heritage on trial

Devine retribution ... John Gay, Working Class Hero

Whale mum may be back ...

Why The Secret Forest Treaty Will Fail ...

Beware of Politicians Bearing Gifts

To call middens "tips" is utter ignorance

Open Letter: The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery

Aboriginal anger over convict heritage list

Failing to learn the lessons of history

No social licence. The Tamar Valley Pulp Mill, irretrievably damaged.

Tasmanian Reverie

Hip, Hip Hooray ...

Remembering the Moon Landing

Save 10 Murray win

'Brighton bypass fiasco lessons must be learned'

Equity and ecological sustainability rather than Corporation control

You think the unions are bad ...

An Open Letter To Bob Brown And Christine Milne

You Did As You Were Told To Do

The Rot Remains at the Core of Forestry and Government

SOUTHERN WATER WORKS WITH LOCAL COMMUNITY TO RESOLVE EGG ISLAND CANAL DESIGN

The case for 10 Murray

Did Will call Nick?

The power of big business to bring down government

Henry cuts deep in mining critique

Bartlett’s Good Idea

Heritage: more fears over new Act

Tell your milk crate stories

FSC and Plantations

Dear Editor: Dr David Leaman's unpublished letters to Mercury

I'm blessed to have enjoyed such a time

Chicken Marengo

Allan Gillespie: A life of zest and gusto

The Tragedy of Tasmania

Forestry: We were warned ...

‘Underexposed’ Heritage Bill – Test of New Minister

What price history?

Levee Line and Martial Law by Graeme Calder will be launched by Tasmanian writer Greg Lehman

Stop these damn old people's jokes

Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree (2)

Notes from the park

Integrity? What integrity!

In David's Name

Amnesia reigns

That recognition factor

Accounting for Dummies—Lessons from the Forest Industry

The Rose

Anzac Day…before the flag was hijacked

The Great Victorian Denial

They are not lying, just deluded

Labor's hatred of the Greens

A Lesson in History

A tribute to an early pioneer

We must fight free of Anzac, lest we forget our other stories

The alter once carved out for God

Monday: Don't miss the Egg Island rally

Egg Island Canal Rally

Tasmania's lesson: when Labor attacks the Greens, it threatens itself

Heritage canal under siege

What lies beneath ... the treasures of Aboriginal history

Beware the 'eco-terrorism' dirty tricks brigade

Waiting for protection

Aboriginal artefacts could move bypass

Happy anniversary David

Bridge plan to protect ancient site

A cry from the heart ... and a plea for help

Archives Matter!

In heritage law we rust

Pump, Spray, Pulp - Heritage Fund turns to Slush.

"Respectful” Disrespect at the Winter Olympics and throughout Australia

Heritage: The forgotten election issue

Egg Island: From this ...

Oh, for heaven's sake!

National Archives Office protest

Dr Taylor: I do not recall such an audit ...

Recollections and Prognostications of an Octogenarian

Reclaiming the Domain

Shabby treatment

Bugger history, the environment and aesthetics

It cost $27,500 to fell Westbury's trees. Why?

Remembering the 1970s' Energy Crisis

So be alert

Haiti's 200-year Earthquake

The Last Post

Westbury: It is a criminal act

Rise and fall

A memorial to Malua

Move Australia Day

Heritage Council is incompetent and professionally bankrupt

Heritage Council is a disgrace to Tasmania

No towering glory

One of the great criminal acts ...

Everybody loses

To Heal Haiti, Look To history, Not Nature

Modern day Conquistadores alive and well

Why the Left should support Sea Shepherd’s anti-whaling campaign

Gilding the lily

H.G. and Tassie

Socialist Alliance Candidates say: Free the Brighton arrestees, put Bartlett on trail for cultural v

All the willows are gone

The Oil and Money Straitjacket

Aboriginal warning to developers

The birth of Zimbabwe ...

Welcome to Orwell’s World 2010

We need to split religion from spirituality

Schofield is right

Yes, he's the Great Defender

Lucky break for relic vandals

Why the Egg Island cut doesn’t make sense

NEW DATA REVEALS STYX CARBON KINGS OLDER THAN FORESTRY TASMANIA CLAIM

Clancy from the other side

The good wife ...

MIA-MIA DESTRUCTION IS APPALLING

The Dying Game

Icelanders celebrate the bicentenary of Jorgen Jorgenson's rule

ABORIGINAL MIA-MIA SITE MUST BE ASSESSED & PROTECTED

Aboriginal relic faces logging destruction

Labor family photo album disguised as Annual Report

LABOR SPIN MACHINE EXPLOITING PORT ARTHUR AUTHORITY

Aboriginal community: Another 25 arrests

The real Jorgen Jorgenson

The world that made us and the world we made

The Coming Insurrection

Capricious, risible and arrogant

The possibility of minority government

We accuse Minister O’Byrne of cultural vandalism

ABORIGINES CONFRONT BULLDOZERS AT BRIGHTON

Pulping the mill: A wrap

McCains: Like sheep to the slaughter

Eric Reece ... and the paradox at the heart of our future

Jorgen Jorgenson: a legend to rival Ned

How the Australian Gulf Country was Settled in the 1880s

Lieutenant-Governor, David Collins, back in the historic viewscape

Climate Rage

How the U.S. Funds the Taliban

BARTLETT MUST LOBBY RUDD TO SAVE TASMANIAN NATIONAL ARCHIVES OFFICE

Ye Olde Gunne Shoppe

St David's Cathedral & the grave of the first Lieutenant-Governor

Republic of Fools: The Evil Empire

Catastrophe likely if rapid extinctions continue: UN

Death Denial

Australia - El Salvador

Remembrance Day

A colonial evil that perpetuated and increased itself

Crusty's Corner ... being the occasional ravings of an elderly gent

Climate deal 'unlikely' this year

UN endorses Goldstone report

Democracy Tas-style: Party before Principle

Insights into division and common ground

Save 10 Murray

EU eyes bigger global role

Help preserve recordings of indigenous Australian Aboriginal music and oral song

Who will lead?

Pulp mill saga: Labor, Liberal MPs and MLCs are the real culprits

Hydro Past Constrains Future

Coffee, glorious coffee!

Sober as a judge?

No conditions, no excuses Mr Rudd

The Israeli Brand

What makes a dissident stand up?

Millions Will Starve as Rich Nations Cut Food Aid Funding, Warns UN

Honduras talks grapple with issue of Zelaya return

The Population Myth

One Sunday at Beaconsfield

Small church, big memories

Snapshots of the Tamar

Great Forest vision is unveiled

Chavez invites Obama to Peace Dialogue

Love and Freedom in Van Diemen’s Land

Blast from the past

Snapshots of the Tamar

How Israel Targets and Suppresses Opposition to Its Annexation Wall

Castro praises Obama on climate

Snapshots of the Tamar

Public Talk: The Fromelles Project

How Dick Cheney's Radical Acts in the White House Still Threaten Our Democracy

US Hypocrisy Astonishes the World

Blacks weigh bypass protest

The Lockerbie Saga

U.S. must get tough to help restore democratic order in Honduras

The meaning and significance of the carvings ...

The way they were

Fight for busts

Jorgen and Norah on the Ross Bridge

Homecoming for Lockerbie bomber/ A convenient scapegoat?

Reds and the church

Economic and Ecological Crises, the Change Vector and Marx

Making sense of Tasmania

Temporary recession ... or the end of growth?

This is No Recession - It's a Planned Demolition

Consciousness Capitalism

Making sense of Tasmania

Senate confirms Sotomoayor, first Hispanic on Supreme Court

Making sense of Tasmania

An enterprise in cultural vandalism

The Boycott Century

Bust Me Gall and Break Me Neck - Patsy Adam Smith 1968

Kiwis to a brick

Making sense of Tasmania

Huntingfield: A done deal?

Making sense of Tasmania

Susannah: A beautiful, touching story

Beatties and the beauty

Susannah’s Angel

Cheney Sweats Out the Summer

Such carnage

Heritage is a vital part of what it is to be human

Heritage through art

Making sense of Tasmania

Rivers of Blood flow in Reykjavik!

Trinity Church, Macquarie House listing supported by Burnet

Oil and the Iraq “withdrawal”

Pirates of the Mediterranean - Israel Kidnaps Peace Boat Crew

Making sense of Tasmania

Iceland falls to British pirates

AVAAZ Swine Flu campaign is making a difference

Sea of Desperation

Jorgen Jorgenson brings Iceland and Tasmania together ...

A wink's as good as a nod

A noble heart ... but no Nobel Prize

A society that nobody wants

History repeats itself

Sorrowful outcome

Bilderberg Plan for 2009: Remaking the Global Political Economy

Jorgen Jorgenson's Liberation of Icelandic in 1809 - A Bicentenary

Convicts and education

A few moments of economic history

A legal tussle for the right to communicate

MEGAFAUNA!

Emptying the seas

The unfolding of a pandemic (2)

The Yanks - Over-subsidised, Over-paid and Over here

Fight free of Anzac, lest we forget other stories ...

Saving Civilization: A massive mobilization is needed to prevent total collapse

A raving whacko, cum sex symbol ...

Somalia: You Are Being Lied to About Pirates

Some Tasmanian nurses – An Anzac Story

Anzac 2009: Thinking about memorialisation and commemoration

ANZAC Day - Uniting or Dividing the Nation?

Labor's further acts of philistinism: Blighting Lights for brutalized Bellerive

Franklin ...

A Crack in Capitalismo's Facade

The Way We Were

Alan Greenspan’s Perpetual Motion Machine

Facing the Future: A conversation between Peter Henning and Greg Suitor

The American Media Misdiagnosis

Tasmania’s new ALP neo-liberal generation

Letter to Daniel Hulme

The Politics of Youth

The U.S. Economy: Designed to Fail

Daniel Hulme – First Speech to the House of Assembly

A clear statement on intervention

Venezuela: Bolivarianism Triumphs in Referendum Vote

Cambodia Tribunal Monitor

The American ruling class

Seismic Shifts Down Under

A Planet on the Brink: Economic Crash Will Fuel Social Unrest

Shutting doors - how many more churches to go?

The Scandal and Shame of a Stateless Palestine

Break the habit

War Crimes Trials?

A Good Cause Gone Bad

The First Fleet Whores on Australia’s Invasion Day

Young Tasmanian observes elections in El Salvador

The General

In the beginning there was a river!

Celebrate Dubya Day

Genetic secrets from Tassie tiger

Cheney says he gets to decide which records to archive

Hillary Clinton - How to Spin

America's Hidden Role in Hamas's Rise to Power

Bush's Parting Gift to Israel

Stealing Time

The Dilemma That Is Gaza

Dickens stuffed it in Oliver Twist

What the hell are we doing in Afghanistan?

Afghanistan, Another Untold Story

Afghanistan in Crisis

Armistice Day – Let’s get it right about the First World War

Is it true that foreigners finance American debt?

PIRATES, POMPEY & PRAGMATISM - Or HOSTIS HUMANI GENERIS

Sounds like the History Wars

Armistice Day – the most egregious exclusion

1979: A Warning and a Prophesy for America

Globalised banking 1944 - 1983

Armistice Day: The egregious exclusion of Tasmania’s military nurses

How Tasmania's Lady of the Lake was silenced

Have we got rights for you

We are still First Australians

15 years. I've seen it. It's a joke!

Montpelier Retreat: HCC wipes its hands

Bush Is Pouring Gas on Afghanistan's Bonfire

No more delays

Answers may lie under sand

Solzhenitsyn: Beauty will save the world?

Notes From Former Interpreter to Bush and Clinton

Saving the Franklin: A people's rebellion

A night for looking back ... and forward

Why 'sorry' matters

Lady Nelson honoured

Lennon leaves a bitter legacy

A catchment in crisis

History Not Repeating

A story of power in Tasmania

RPDC: Anniversary of a serial killing

The tragedy foretold

Mother Cummings Peak ... 10 years on

A terrible, beautiful history of hope

For whom the bells toll

Van Diemen's Land: A review

Burma ...

Heritage at risk

What about tradition?

Trinity: the Labor link

Heroism ... and the closure of Trinity

The threat to cultural heritage

Saving Trinity

Save Trinity Church

On the trail of a cannibal

Natone School Reunion

Time to call in the Administrators

Kicking our old colony in the guts

Shed conundrum

History wars

The Convict Stain ... and music

Noisier worlds

Dust on my shoes

A real hero

A great soldier

Recherche

A big year

Lisbon from the ashes

Murdoch's War

Recherche Bay ...

Recherche Bay

Franklin Graham's mediaeval crusade

A queer view of Tasmania's past

State of Denial

Eye for a bargain

Tasmania's shame: The Devil Disease

Wretched symbol of colonial oppression

Recherche Bay: the watershed clash

Excusing the commissars' mates ... and all about Leonard!

The bid for Recherche Bay

It's about respect