Category Articles - Opinion
Our cry from the heart ... the pictures
Brown v Adair, Crean in Sarawak ...
Forest deal 'greenmails' the green groups
Pokies: Woeful arguments of Bacon and Rockliff
FSC meets TAP: A Citizen's Report
Crikey: Sydney spinners sail to King Island for anti-turbine fight
Austerity pitfalls and alternatives
Foolhardy to risk a fragile peace in forest wars
The ‘blackmail provisions’ in the TFA Act
We sentence you to Ten Days on the Island
The Four Reports of the Climate Apocalypse?
Minister needs to show leadership on feed-in tariffs
WikiLeaks Party demand federal shield laws for journalists
Why the 5:1 ratio should stay in family day care
Richard Denniss: The Poison Pill. Tom De Kadt: Nothing to lose
No more chances - Live exports must be banned
Why Tasmania's Upper House election was a step forward for marriage equality
A challenge for Tasmania to adopt a much needed reform
Is this what our planning schemes are designed to do?
Nestlé CEO Says Water Is Food That Should Be Privatized – Not A Human Right
Why we voted for the Bill. Silence, says Gillard. Never, says Milne
The Feed-In Tariff/Aurora debate ...
Tonight I watched Four Corners ...
EU to ban pesticides linked to bee deaths
The big gay marriage election fraud ...
What is happening to Antarctica’s ice?
Can’t you just see Bob walking towards you, in your mind’s eye?
Vampires and Sex Toys ... La Dolce Vita
Balance is appeasement. Fairness is truth ...
Gellibrand: The Amazing Son of Tasmania
French leaders show true leadership in face of violent opposition
Sarawak Report: “Forced To Become Coolies In Their Own Lands”
Special Timbers sector 'would be gutted'. Mulder passes. Wreckers, says Milne. Bill passes
Would you protect our individual freedoms or take them away?
A monumental failure of regulatory authority ... ?
Tasmania, Tourism and the Elephant in the Room
Public Office is Public Trust?
Leatherwood: A business struggling to survive, because of ...
Salamanca Declaration welcomed: further backdown on abortion bill needed
The Bradbury Effect (or why the Liberals can’t win in 2014)
Tigers in The Weld: The Sequel
Tas abortion forum hears impacts on decriminalising abortion
International Coalition Supports Iceland’s Legislation on Porn
Evan Whitton: Investigative v Adversarial Law
Dear Bob, this is the 21st century ...
Bolt the Alienated. Heiss the Luminous
FSC International and Tasmania: Irreconcilable Issues and Values
New anti-corruption commission No. 1 on the election agenda
The metaphorical fox in Tasmania
Ordinary Australians may be giving up on politics
Labor’s hand forced on size of Parliament
Tonight: 60 Minutes to Cover Sue Neill-Fraser Case
Unresolved Concerns with the Integrity of the Upper House
Fishy Business at John Curtin House Ltd ...
Police probe Observer Tree fire
Giddings knew Gunns was insolvent
We should phase out of the sale of tobacco in Australia by 2020
Property Council welcomes population target
How to make Government media releases disappear
The Underbelly of Forestry Tasmania. Julia pledge on pulp mill
The mining boom has not been a win-win
Tribalism is the greatest obstacle Tasmania faces
Watering down of mine permit conditions unacceptable
Copping landfill: The Potential for Catastrophe
Tasmania is being cast as Australia's Greece
Disrespect, concentrated power and a lost narrative. Abbott's surge
Lost ... without the pulp mill ...
Australian Democracy at the Crossroads
A lack of confidence in the integrity of the Upper House
The aspirational Tasmanian: ready for the right kind of change ...
Will we Bite the Bullet and Buy the Rusich?
Pulp Friction - Fact not Fiction
South Vicmania? North Tastoria? Why merging three Australian states is a bad idea
No basket-case: Tasmania on the bumpy road to economic sustainability
Same sex please, we're British
Rising risk prices out new coal-fired plants: report
Solution to the Tasmanian Fox Saga
Democratic hemlock: saving earth from our animal selves
Former RSPCA CEO withdraws claim
UK marriage equality vote puts pressure on Australian leaders
The Committee Chair has a self-disclosed pecuniary interest in Ta Ann Tasmania P/L
Intelligence-Led Policing? Not in Tasmania. The Sue Neill-Fraser Case
What’s wrong with Tasmania, Australia’s freeloading state?
Out with the old and in with the Nova riche
Harsh lessons of a bushfire horror
Climate Change: It’s time to speak up …
TFA: A small window of opportunity
Real Estate and Boosterism ...
Climate change: not a civilized problem
Human creature, vulnerable and heroic
A doco which could make you sick!
Sustainable Forestry ... I Think Not!
The inspiring heroism of Aaron Swartz
Urban Forests - Natures Remedy for Mental Illness, Health and Wellbeing
Three Ways Sensible Gun Control Could Have Prevented Aurora Shootings
Green arrogance burns fiercely
Tarkine trashed in cynical pre-Christmas dump
Why the world didn't end yesterday
Christmas not a time to forget welfare of voiceless animals
The real hardships of homelessness
And Ta Ann will hang around. Paul Harriss knew that ...
Bedtime reading for MLCs ... before the $50 million vote
Boat builders and woodworkers support the Tasmanian Forest Agreement
The end of another climate conference ...
Tree-top vigil - First Anniversary
How not to make policy: Tasmanian forest deal
We let in the rich. We persecute the poor
We urge the Legislative Council to reject it
The publicly-funded Tallship rusting and rotting in Qld
That's typical dumb-arse Labor for you!
Tasmanian Fine Furniture – A Distinctive Language of Style
Steal what you will from the blueness of the sea and the sand of memory
Red-Green politics retrograde on prostitution
Open letter to Julia Gillard, Lara Giddings
Rodeo cruelty comes to Margate
A solution to the forestry wars: Am I wrong about this?
Keating urges Australia to focus on Indonesia
The dark side of the Australian sex industry?
Simply locking up forests is a recipe for disaster
Embattled Abbott Thirty-Six Below The Wave
Lefties! throw off your tired affection to Microsoft or Apple!
The hero at the heart of the Royal Commission
Cash for Containers: A Solution to Pollution Choking Tasmania’s Clean Image
To the children and families ...
Minister backflips on sow stall ban
Premier Giddings' opening of Brighton bypass insensitive
The Wacky World of Tasmanian Liberal Forest Policy
Forestry Tasmania: Wilful deception and crass incompetence
Rosevears Pub, Thursday, Nov 1: Tasmanian Times' Tasmanian of the Year ...
Pippa's Dilemma: The Moral Demands of Affluence
Old feral cat’s fighting days are over. Bob Annells. Tony Burke. Gunns' last days
The difference between Long Reach and MONA
Rueful confessions of an outed plagiarist
The Examiner's letters policy ...
Rodney Croome: We will not be silenced. Friday's Glenorchy rally
The duty of politicians to principles, not mob rule
Inquiry not needed. MLC 'hate' campaign uncalled for
Sex work is just work. Or is it, really?
Greens call for a MYEFO that puts people and nature first
And we thought that the worst atrocities had already happened
Gunns, forestry, and the flawed notion of 'social licence'. Creditors' meeting. Monopoly Game
Misleading breach of process in cycleway. That sexist comment ...
Changing of the Guard among Tasmania’s forestry moguls
No, you're not entitled to your opinion
The legal ambush that sank marriage equality
This pathetically weak government ...
Bushfire disaster fears. FIAT's bat-and-ball back in peace talks
Brooker Highway funding is last century thinking
Closed minds in newspapers lead to closed newspapers
Let us hope the days of the cargo cult are over
'Labor has lost its purpose - and soul'
Mr Elliott, stop this 1080 baiting!
Women's place in 1963: why baby boomer women have no money
Disability, sex rights and the prostitute
It's not mob rule ... it's protecting Tasmania's interests
Final push for a forests agreement
Greens vow on super trawler campaign. Responses to Dr Wadsley/Opinions. Dr Wadsley's response
Marriage equality: state laws the way forward
Wilkie: More cruelty in the live export trade
McCall: Set aside the IGA and the Roundtable. Green puts his foot down
If a child of an addict could ask the Federal Group why ... ?
Was Australia intended as a hemp colony?
Is this no country for old women or men?
Prostitution - exit strategies first
Where is the Devil Recovery Plan?
The Contribution of 'Corruption' to Miscarriage of Justice Cases
The FV Margiris Quota: a case of Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
Forestry Association still playing cat & mouse
A sawmill suitable for Nitens and other hardwood logs
Schizophrenia is not so black or white
Super Trawler: Failing The Canberra Times test
Scale back: the corporate lessons of Tasmania’s forestry debacle. Forest carbon ...
Old Boys No Longer Run Tasmania
Paul Gilding: Prophet For Our Times
Ta Ann is at the centre of any Signatory Deal
Bryan the Bashful versus the Nome King
Harm minimisation: Is that the best we can do
Neil Armstrong's death should be a wake-up call for the world
Why tobacco prohibition won’t work
Fine; we can all relax. Can we?
When personal best isn’t enough
Back to the future for the forestry industry
We have to do better than this
Frolicking with the pixies at the bottom of Lara’s garden
Give us untold confusion over unacceptable discrimination and fearmongering anyday
Turnbull's eloquence shows up the pitbull
Irregular maritime arrivals, anyone?
Ken Henry says quality of public policy debate is at its worst in 25 years
Pulp mill no part of Tasmania’s future
Gap narrows but Liberals still cruising
Stupidity is on the rise in our age of enlightenment
Supporting the Human Rights of Sex Workers: Sex Party Policy - And Damn Proud of It!
Australian Public Servants Subjected to Soviet-Style Abuse
Guy Barnett's surprise about-face on same-sex marriage. 500 brave the rain ...
Science is integral to Hobart’s economic DNA
The Second Coming is more likely ...
Plantations: Putting the value above ... nothing!
Forest Peace Deal - a game of multiple hoaxes?
Denial piled upon delusion ... enough material for a whole round of psychiatric conferences
Here comes the sun: chilling verdict on a climate going to extremes
Super Trawler: Shame on all you scientists ...
D-Day Today: Decision or Deferral or Dead. The Cost. And another pause ...
Political party or lobby group? The dark side of the Australian Sex Party
Defining ‘Waste’ In Old Growth Forests
IGA: We should all be very, very nervous
Australian farmers are being driven out of business
The End for the Pulp mill and a New Victory for Social Licence?
Super Trawler: Questions for Mr Geen. Green's doubts. National campaign launched
The ultimate contradiction. Let the market decide (in our favour of course)
Arrogance, hypocrisy and wilful ignorance
People of the Void, or Why I am Better Than a Christian
Is prevention really better than cure? And how much does it cost?
Why are oil prices going wild?
Huge Win for Tassie: Hot Shot Advisers!
Cut down The Triffid. Pokie barons plunder carbon compo money
Will the Lara-Nick double-act have to come to an end?
Time for Turnbull to walk the talk on gay marriage
The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia
Two ex-premiers blast minority governments
The gross failure of animal cruelty sentencing
Push v Pull: The Morality of Offshore Processing
This is the way the world ends ...
What Mt Wellington really needs
Lonny in trouble ... again. Libs pledge to dredge
Losing strength? An alternative vision of Spain’s indignados
Public Commission for A New Major Party in Australia
ALP attempts to Thorpedo the past
SOS: Save a Mainlander Campaign
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Electroconvulsive or Shock Therapy
Standing up for sex workers is standing up for pimps
Does the 2010 election herald a return to Van Diemen’s Land?
Dr Warwick Raverty: Many acts of bullying and intimidation in CSIRO
This is just plain wrong. Why is it allowed to continue?
Perceptions and how they shape our lives
Hope for the Huon ... and Tasmania?
Are we not capable of solving our own problems?
Ashamed of our animal instincts
Suffering the karma of killing
Reform Spokesperson Ignores the Simple Facts
I’ll Always Be Labor (but I don’t have to vote for them!)
Foreign aid: moral imperative and national interest
How I stopped worrying and learned to love the stupid
An open letter to Forestry Tasmania. Booth: Rogue agency locking in contracts
It's Official: Watching Fox Makes You Stupider
The emperor has no clothes ...
Book sales have fallen off a cliff: What next for the Australian publishing industry?
Clean water demands changed forestry practices
Does the Lord Mayor trust his ratepayers
Nine problems stopping The Global Mail from getting an audience
Bring It On – the Australian Greens Build Credibility?
White Australian Policy Affecting our Jobs!
Is Tasmania a failed state ... ?
The flip side to Bill Gates’ charity billions
Geoff: It's far worse ... Forestry Tasmania’s shrinking estate
How to Vote Informal in Hobart
Tasmania’s Transport Future: Part 1
Murdochs: 'Not a fit person'. 'Wilfully ignorant'
An unedifying lack of perspective: Julia judged. Bernie's broadside. Rates slashed ...
UPDATE: Tasmania – Where 6 people have 33 government board positions
The Desolate Life of a Chained Dog ...
Forestry Tasmania – A Compelling Case for Reform
Is the thylacine still out there?
Greens cry wolf on Integrity Commission
Last Roll of the Gunns' Dice ... as Pulp World burns
The King is Dead. Long Live the Queen
The case of Julian Assange: do constitutional principles matter?
Greg James: Nominate Kim Booth for the Senate
Is it time for a little Truth & Reconciliation?
Get out of Afghanistan ...next year
House of Reps survey on same sex marriage
Tasmania Police Investigation Procedures - Are they Adequate? Eve Askew ...
Why is this important to members of the TFGA?
It's not war. Chameleon Gunns in Melb move? No tree spiking
Labor Death Wish – cutting umbilical cords
Burning Tasmania: The Mercury Perspective
Who is Professor Jonathan West?
How About Some Easter Eggs for Gunns? No money, says Burke
Up, up and away: how money power works Down Under
Sterilisation Burns for Tourists a Must for Tasmania’s Future Prosperity
Tasmanian autumn killing time continues ...
From Go to Woe… it didn’t make sense!
Tasmanian Sex Laws Paper is a Sham Poll
Matter of Public Interest: MONA’s David Walsh and ObserverTree’s Miranda Gibson
Biomass rejection is flawed policy
Crafty Critters v Launceston City Council
WikiLeaks and other reformers: has Machiavelli met his match?
Paul Harriss’s Altruistic Trips to Sarawak. Ta very much. Rolley takes Ta Ann reins. MRs
Dark facts uncovered by White Knight. Will prefers Lton Cup to White Knight. Repeal PMAA Petition
It could happen to a heartbeat to Australian animals
Paul Harriss MLC should resign. Questions which must be answered
My reflections from Fukushima, Japan
‘MY TREE’ – Forest protection scheme
Confronting the Australian politics of resignation on prostitution
Send in the sock puppets: social media manipulation and Kony
From the paddock, not the shelves
In Tassie politics, it's hard to see the sense from the trees.
Time for new Aboriginal heritage legislation (Part 3 of 3)
The anti- depressant/placebo smackdown
Occupy Draws Strength From the Powerless
What about the rest, Mr Hanna?
Australia's problem? We never talked about Kevin Rudd
Time for new Aboriginal heritage legislation (Part 2 of 3)
Live export assurances are meaningless
Prostitution laws - Towards a coherent philosophical underpinning
Time for new Aboriginal heritage legislation (Part 1 of 3)
I won't be silenced on forestry by dinosaurs stuck fast in a swamp
Labor's rock and hard place. Andrew Wilkie and Kevin Rudd
Adding insult to the injury of prostitution
The psychopaths on cycle paths are coming down in pairs
A very British summer on your ABC
Rinehart grabs for media control
Rich London, poor London – a tale of two cities
The Hypocrisy of Will Hodgman's Liberals
Working against the global sex industry
Towards an economic theory of capitalism - MACRO supply and demand
Report the failures of Tasmania's health system here
Amid pride and prejudice, it's time for a new flag
Why the role of our Head of State is important
Who exactly has the frontal lobe damage?
Are 35 Fools More Talented Than 25?
The Tragedy of Tasmania's Forests: One act on from Flanagan
Learning the Lessons from legalising prostitution: Response from a Sex Worker
Education: Change is easy – it’s improvement that’s difficult. Report released
The perception of the planning process in the media
How adventurers adjust to life back in the ‘burbs
Wind Power Australia – The Musselroe Wind Farm Travesty In Tasmania
Killer Drones, Dieback and Democracy
‘Democracy does not apply to Aboriginal people’
Why we can't trust Gillard any more. Greens 'still in touch'
Travels around Tasmania with some latte sippers - the sequel
The Justice Secretary “Resigns”
Travels around Tasmania with some latte sippers
The leopard has not changed its spots
Outrageous Examples of Hidden Charges Companies Pass Off on Consumers
Justice for the few: NAB v. Society ...
The joyful abandon of someone witnessing a spectacle
Towards a true democracy with the Australian Independents
Who is scarier Romney or Ahmadinejad?
It is the coal barons, not activists, who threaten society
Guantánamo: Ten Years and Counting
When money talks louder than words
When I hear the word 'culture' ... I reach for my diary
IGA: Tear it up, says Colbeck ... as FT 'runs amok'
The Victorian Injustice System
An over-abundance of hyperbole ...
Space development the key to our survival
Death ... and instant sainthood
Why don't they have a handicap race for line honours
Stick a Fork in Her: China's Done
Is the World Really Safer Without the Soviet Union?
Support Alison Bleaney to clean up our water
The thumb is proving mightier than a pen
The stupidity that has no end ... but is it Gunns end?
Falling forests. Ta Ann threats. Softwood fears
What is really needed to address climate change?
The Protester: Time Person of the Year 2011
Why Tasmania needs an independent inquiry into child sex abuse
How Lennon, Rolley and Gordon flogged the softwood resource
Why the mining boom should be slowed
Good reason to worry about our democracy
Julian Assange: he's not the messiah, he's just my boy
West Papua: Slow-motion Genocide
Local Government reform: More people participation in smaller units!
Australian Party a potential third force as Katter shows he is not quite Right
Self disgust is the real justice
Peter Roebuck and the League of Gentlemen
Conflict of interest: The cancer within our public life
Arts vs politics: We haven't got the balance right
Forget NIMBY—the new battle cry is ‘Not On Our Planet’
Looking forward to a smoking ban on the route of the Tour De France?
Those South Pacific Cane Cutters
Is Gillard attempting to revive China free trade
Beauty ... in the eye of Dr Amos
Fresh Thinking -- For Our Grandchildren
Lest We Forget: the need to morally justify Afghanistan
Observing Remembrance Day: a personal reflection
The best way to push bad policy is to wrap it in a ‘security’ blanket
A woman's opinion is the mini-skirt of the internet
Roundtable Creation Myth Has No Vision Splendid
Mayne on the Mill: Inaccurate puffery
In a move to compulsory voting, let's not forget community
Cassy O’Connor – Just a Regular Politician
Bringing civility back to the parliamentary cockfight
Do you really want to see Eric Abetz get a firmer grip on our precious island ...
Money lenders not the only people who get rich at the expense of those who labour
Cassy O'Connor: A view from inside and outside the tent, so to speak ...
Ignoring gen Y while the world sleepwalks to catastrophe
Believing everything… knowing very little
Why euphemism is integral to modern warfare
Greens take a right step in Labor waltz
SIEV X: It's time for a Royal Commission
Is the world’s population really a time-bomb?
Kim Booth - Progressive Throwback?
Janet Albrechtsen’s Jurisprudence
Tasmanian Parliament – proposal for change
The Importance of Green Spaces in Cities
James Boyce launches Island 126
HCC must knock this obscene plan on the head
Occupy Wall Street: Why So Many Demands for Demands?
Should there be a maximum wage? Wall St demos. How traders really think ...
Let's Ban Political Editorials by Out of Touch Editors
Terrorists, sex and violence: cowards ruled, heroes overruled
Did defaulting rescue Argentina and could it work for Greece?
Bolt decision: ‘Irresponsible journalism illegal’? Think again
Bob McMahon: Protests to escalate if project continues
Letter from Cairo: the struggle for a free press
PM fiddles while apparatchiks plunder ALP empire
Loss of more than just a theatre company
Tsunami to hit Australian real estate
China: the greater the bubble, the greater the collapse
Queer eye for a straight victory
The Media and 9/11: How We Did
Selling West Papua to buy Peace with Indonesia ~ Realpolitik or Terrorism?
Epitaph for Another September 11
Why Political Coverage is Broken
Into the Abyss. IGA secret agenda, says TFGA
Window to Togatus (7): Go Forth Wharfie, Punch Someone
Tasmania ... Ripe for the Plucking
With a rare touch of restraint the term tree-hugging was not used ...
Reflections from the vigil-site, Long Reach
Systematically Biased Reporting
Forget democracy. It's corporations that rule the west
Australia: The Consequential Country
A pressing case for standing up to Rupert Murdoch's bullying
Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not
Public opinion and representative democracy
Wealth creation: Surface appearance and reality
Pontville: Politics and people
Rotten, stinking and crawling with maggots
Will Thomson probe cause the HSU to implode?
Better get a lawyer, son. Permits. Code Green strike. Forestry incorrect
Window to Togatus (7): Hannah's Devine response
In Australia the people are sovereign
My Cry from the Heart: Deliver Us From The Message
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: The Dangers
Window to Togatus (6): Nancy v. Warnie
Marriage equality not the main issue
Tasmania verdant with Green tourism
Going Bush ... err Bust (now with added notes)
Planning - Environmentally Sustainable Development
Framing The Narrative: Murdoch v. Assange
Global holiday for moon landing anniversary
Window to Togatus (5): My Q&A night with Lara and Tony ...
The Politics of Tasmania: How to Lose Friends and Ostracise People
Naughty Tobacco Industry - needs a good spanking
Reach to the Sun to Save the Koala
Biomass burning ... the better plan
Consciousness Lost. Looking back at 1972
Carbon tax: A very great move in the teeth of the Big End of Town
The Magical Expansion of Life Beyond Earth
Opinions, values, journalism and David Hicks
Kingmaker Graham Richardson says Wilkie could bring down Gillard
Deal or no deal? Reflections on Tasmania’s forest agreement
Bryan Green: Two hats and neither fits properly
Tasmania and School Retention Rates. Unfair treatment in a mainland education broadsheet
What really happened in the 1980s and where are we now?
Live Cattle Export - the industry view
Gay marriage and a Dissenting Christian
A handful of thoughts before the dust
ABC: The Royal Park rally should have been covered
TT Line and the footy bill ...
How to bid farewell to the Governor
A Cry from The Heart: Aerial Spraying Regulation Farce
Letter to all Tasmanian Councillors
Gunns pulp mill permit to expire again?
Public native forest transition inquiry
Prince of Wales on the Future for Food
Death of terror's big fish leaves a sour taste
A healthy nudge? No, shock us to our souls
Aussie, Christian or universal values?
Environmentalism: The Way Forward
Founding fathers turn on urban Greens
Watch out for Captain Greenwash!
Can journalists ever be heroes? Is journalism worth dying for?
Gunns Pulp Mill - Transport & Road Safety Concerns – updated for 2011
How can this be possible and who is the winner?
The extraordinary assault on Andrew Bolt and freedom of speech
The Mauritius economic miracle
Are private forest growers “missing in action”?
Christmas Island asylum seekers desperate to escape hell
Farmers complain about rain, there's too much
island Earth launches into Second Life
Gunns proposed plantation policy: an open letter
Two-faced policy on refugees exposes Liberals' ugly side
Putting the 'Un" in Australian
