EARLIER: December, November, October More on Jacques Derrida ... ... and, The Amity Treaty ... LINKS The Royal Hobart Hospital Factory ... People can't sustain a working life in such conditions ... A MIDWIFE Tasmania, too I grabbed the bench and sank to my knees, sort of gasping in shock, anticipation and horror. TASMANIA? JENNIFER CRAWLEY Kev, Windschuttle ... Crawford, Agatha ... LETTERS Manufacturing a mandate ... the claims are exaggerated and do not mandate a wind back of basic human rights ... RODNEY CROOME Send a Christmas card ... donate a laptop ... ... or sign a petition ... PRUE CAMERON St Paul and the scrapheap ... ... Even by the standard of Labor hacks isn't that just a bit embarrassing ... ? A Believer in Truth Leaving home ... ... having to leave home at such a young and vulnerable age is an unfair and extremely difficult burden ... RICHARD PICKUP Youth activisits dent political apathy ... ... ... JAMIE ROSEWELL The Barber ... a meditation ... ... Athol James Barker is possibly the best barber's sideman in the business ... DEREK ROGERS Greatest Inventions ... Are newspapers burnt out ... ? Cyber Journos ... P2P is here to stay: Music companies must get real ... LINKS Killing my Spirit ... The booming real estate market ... FAMILY MAN The Ballot Box ... It's not compulsory voting - it's compulsory attendance at the polling booth... YULIA ONSMAN The Waterfront ... The rush to develop ... and the lessons of Zero Davey ... PAUL JOHNSTON Mere rote knowledge ... How unprogressive can you get ... LEONARD COLQUHOUN The Debating Chamber... Derrida ... and Duncan Kerr ... LETTERS The failure to plan ... The recent intervention by Heritage Minister Bacon in the saga of the National Trust is an example of the outcomes of a failure ... phill PARSONS A cry from the damned ... Although Launceston has high levels of air pollution, especially of particulate matter do we see an electric vehicle in the Launceston City fleet ... phill PARSONS Blind faith of the True Believer ... The blind faith shown by the writer is amazing ... LETTERS Bah, Humbug ... A wave of depression swept over me ... ROB WALLS Is this yet another Labor Party secret ... When the Tasmanian Labor Party opens its doors to honest debate then perhaps it will be able to face the emptiness of platitudes like "thousands and thousands of meaningful new jobs" ... JAMES BOYCE Mr Gutwein ... Crikey has been fascinated with rebel Tasmanian state Liberal, Peter Gutwein, ever since he found himself ... CRIKEY, Sealed Zero Davey ... ... Blame the Hobart City Council ... LETTERS The Stolen ... I have been witness to an ancient culture torn apart by alcohol, drug abuse, chronic illness and violence. A hefty price for dispossession, colonization and stolen children ... JENNIFER CRAWLEY How dare you call me 'elite' As a long-time ALP member and activist, Majda Flanagan's speech (What has happened to my Labor Party?) to the Tasmanian ALP Conference struck a loud and resonating chord ... ROBERT JOHNSON Love’s Labor Lost (or, The Night I Met Paul Keating in a Dingy Stairwell in Sydney) ... there was no choir of heavenly angels. But there he was ... TESS St CLAIR Meet ... The Bitch With enormous joy Hag welcomes another trawler of the glorious Belly and Underbelly of Tasmania ... HAG What has happened to my Labor Party? The speech that enraged Paul Lennon ... This Cry from the Heart of a Labor Party stalwart fell off the back of a truck ... HAG Still a True Believer And, out of Right field Yes, I am not amused ... phill PARSONS Boris' arse Grilled, battered or fried ... JRR That's a surprise, Mr Lennon ... What a sorry contrast with Tasmania where every year something between ten and twenty million dollars of public money is effectively transferred to Federal Hotels because the government preferred a secret deal with its mates ... JAMES BOYCE Vale Roelf Roos Roelf Roos, passioniate correspondent to tasmaniantimes.com, died last Thursday ... LINDSAY TUFFIN AND: THANK YOU, from Ursula ... and, He wrote so passionately Derrida ... More on derided Jacques Derrida ... JONATHAN DAWSON, The Mercury Earlier: Derrida Acclaimed Smashing the place The Australian voters gave the Coalition the keys to the Senate at the federal election, they did not give them permission to trash the place ... ANDREW BARTLETT WWF in the wilderness But ... when Law finished reading he was sickened ... RAELENE MOREY Those Labor mates Tut, tut chaps, this is getting nasty ... HAG Democracy and Dr Pell To respect the dignity of the person is as much the basis of humanitarian philosophy as it now a central element in the Christian lexicon. It is a pity that it has not been central to the management of international relations and in particular to the disarmament of Iraq now, actions led by a government who trusts in God [ it's on their money] and whose modern leaders have professed Christian values ... phill PARSONS What Jim Bacon wanted for Recherche Bay A recent Tasmanian government decision to allow two private landowners to log up to within 100m of French historical sites on Recherche Bay’s north-east peninsula flies in the face of the wishes of the late Premier, Jim Bacon ... HEATHER KIRKPATRICK So, let’s keep this so-called French garden in perspective ... Many people are now exploiting it as part of the forestry debate by giving it an importance that it doesn’t deserve ... LETTERS Premier scorns gaming critics PREMIER Paul Lennon may have dismissed National Competition Council concerns about the exclusive deal with Federal Hotels and Resorts over the state's gaming machine licence (imagine just what a few million of that deal's windfall benefits to Federal would do for the West Tamar Highway), but tasmaniantimes maintains that... This is a scandal ... READ WHY HERE My nipples are shrinking ... I was watching telly on Friday night and knew I had to leave the couch ... JENNIFER CRAWLEY But, as Shirley Valentine's lover remarked as he kissed her stretch marks, "These are the badges of life", LETTERS Time was when weapons were manufactured in order to fight wars. Now wars are manufactured in order to sell weapons Never mind revolving doors, this - if it weren't so drenched in blood - would be a bedroom farce. ARUNDHATI ROY The Education Debate English teacher Ann Rennie replies to Leonard Colquhoun (Letters... THE AGE Be there for the Ralph's Bay debate Next Wednesday, November 17th, at 3.45 pm, we would like 100 supporters of Ralphs Bay to go to Parliament House in Hobart, to be present at the first Tasmanian parliamentary debate on Ralphs Bay ... SAVE RALPHS BAY, Letters Show some real Spirit ... Of course Sydney - Hobart would mean the tourism gurus and TCT lackeys, currently bathing each other in more back slapping and awards to each other ... LETTERS The republic dream is not dead If Costello becomes prime minister, and if he accepts a popularly elected president ... GREG BARNS Worthwhile teaching means teaching something worthwhile An opinion piece on the state of teaching and learning [as distinct from "education"] in our schools. It offers a variant perspective from the usual stuff from the "education industry" ... Leonard Colquhoun How does it feel How does it feel ... OPEN DEMOCRACY A global tale Earth, locale, people in motion ... M. JOHN LATHAM How free is the Australian media? You might be shocked ... REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS How the media covered the Meander Dam ... The three daily newspapers were surprisingly similar in the content, sources and context of their coverage ... This suggests a reactive rather than proactive form of journalism where the form of the news is created at a statewide level by lobbying from various groups ... AND ... ... in PDF format NICK FITZGERALD, post-grad, Tas Uni The Wedge ... and the Fifth Estate What better way ... to shaft the Labor Government ... JASON LOVELL That pokies deal Mainstream media has finally caught up with the significance of that astonishing pokies deal with Federal Hotels: Click here AND: For all the debate including financial and social analysis by James Boyce and John De Vries on tasmaniantimes.com (written months ago): CLICK HERE ... and follow all the links The fight for the White House The latest ... BBC link Belittled, insulted, and misrepresented ... It is my continued hope that the Tasmanian Parliamentary Labor Party will follow the clear wishes of its state membership and reject the Walker plan ... THOMAS MOORE They've cut down all the trees in Europe so why not here Is god the devil or is the devil god? ... M. JOHN LATHAM The citizens just don't understand... ... Not a fast track for Paul Lennon and his developer mates ... BARRY BRANNAN George Bush ... without a doubt ... "Real faith leads us to deeper reflection and not - not ever - to the thing we as humans so very much want: Easy Certainty" ... ... RON SUSKIND ... Do not miss The Hung Parliament ... why was there such a big swing against Dick in Lyons and such a small swing against Harry Quick in Franklin ... ? JASON LOVELL Plus, A serve for Mr Probin, Letters A serve from Kev, Letters Selective memory, Kev? Letters Connect, pulp mill, Letters Scoop of the Century ... What do we do? Ignacio Ramonet, Le Monde diplomatique's director, proposes a "fifth estate" that monitors, analyses and makes a public issue of media mono-news and monoculture ... Scoop of the Century JOHN PILGER... Do not miss And, Don't Miss ... JOHN PILGER... in OxfordStudent And, Don't Miss ... DON WATSON ... When words hide the truth It's not a God-given right to do what you want... ... Just like it's not a God-given right to beat up your children ... Dagmar Nordberg ... in The Sunday Tasmanian Duncan is the name ... There is so much utter bollocks uttered on this site about the mainstream media it makes my head swim ... Even The Australian printed it ... I don't know what to think ... LETTERS Christine's win... Credit where credit is due ... KEVIN BONHAM 100,000 in Iraq liberated ... The fallout of democratic imperialism ... THE LANCET The "Labor" Party... This is the least Labor Party in Hag's long and unreliable memory ... HAG The civil war must continue ... Paul Lennon's assertion that he is protecting the jobs of forestry workers is false ... FRANK NICKLASON Monstrous ... That is a monstrous reflection on the ability of the Crown to deny access to law ... JOHN MacKEAN, Letters Welcome to the next three years ... Sheridan and friends have clearly decided it's time to mainstream Family First as a legitimate, even necessary, part of the Australian polity ... RODNEY CROOME Dear Attorney-General ... You, however, have the authority to rise above that in the name of justice. You have a chance here for statesmanship. If you do not consent to a trial, and Tatlow goes down on this one, the peat moss affair dating from the time of the Gray Government will stand historically in condemnation of you as senior party to a wicked denial of justice, a denial of your enlightened measures for law reform, and of your gutsy support for Mr Tatlow in Parliament when you were in Opposition ... JUSTICE ADVOCATE A cruel flirt with Peat Moss victory ... ...Tatlow and his supporters were astonished, jubilant. The dust was wiped off the Irish Mist... HORACE a'COURT Corporate cultural cringe ... ...Those wonderful pictures of birds of prey Optus uses in its latest TV and newspaper ads - well, none is Australian... NICK MOONEY Remembering October 19, 2001 ... above all the complacent view that the dead are ‘nothing to do with us’ that has led to people around the country gathering each year on the anniversary, to affirm that their deaths was just as much a terrible tragedy as the Americans who died on September 11 or the Australians who died at Bali ... JAMES BOYCE Monumental success and failure... ...that mist covering the eyes spread far and wide and caused the brain of Labor to go into neutral... phill PARSONS Punishing Tasmania ... ...unreflective, arrogant and enraging example of unashamed Tassie-bashing ... RODNEY CROOME Grinding rogues honest Five minutes into, "Brat Camp", I was ready to switch off ... RODNEY CROOME Petrolhead... This is heaven or hell, depending on your theological disposition ... LINDSAY TUFFIN Some experience in the real world wouldn't hurt... ... almost solely lawyers, public servants, Party apparatchiks, union officials ... LEONARD COLQUHOUN Dear Duncan... Most politicians pay lip-service to the intelligence of the electorate ... ROB WALLS Unreasonable expectations ... The Greens ... and the vote ... BARRY BRANNAN The Poll ... The election in Tasmania - a referendum on old-growth logging? ... ONLINE OPINION, Link And,: Another grubby Gunns deal, Crikey Greenage daydreams ... How melodramatic ... how politically immature ... KEVIN BONHAM Natural Heritage ... ... a reflection M. JOHN LATHAM Change it ... ... This ignores the reality of party politics, where, in the mind of the party, the sole aim is the election of candidates from that party ... ARI SHARP responds to Those preference deals DERRIDA acclaimed ... The importance of (Derrida) is that we should be cautious about certainty and about the meaning of just about anything ... Margaret Throsby talks to Paul Patton DERRIDA derided ... The late Jacques Derrida is heir to an anti-democratic tradition that harks back to Nietzsche ... GREG BARNS Derelict ... Mr. P. Lennon; in my opinion your government has been derelict in its duty of care with regard to the provision of uncontaminated drinking water to many communities ... LETTERS Those preference deals ... This election result is a horrible one and a reflection of the effectiveness of Howard's racist and divisive agenda - one based on fear and lies. Chucking blame, insults and accusations at each other is not going to change that fact ... YULIA ONSMAN Whither Rene ... Tasmanian Liberals need to ponder this fact - a newly installed leader needs a decent amount of time ... JASON LOVELL A letter to all those who may have hoped for a different election outcome And then the answer comes to me ... PETER ADAMS Waxing lyrical Even Greens need clearfelling now and then ... JENNY CRAWLEY The day they tried to turn out the lights Intriguingly, there are two political parties remaining conspicuously silent on this frightening development ... NEIL CREMASCO Paul meets the Bruvvers Bill Shorten ... said Latham had 'stitched up' Lennon. More like Lennon sat on his hands, closed his eyes and hoped for Latham to win so he could have a convenient excuse to throw his arms up in feigned desperation ... EDDIE STORACE Australia is now a damaged and divided land Mr Howard has been able to build his electoral success largely by appealing to a darker side of the Australian character in which narrowness, selfishness, and xenophobia prevail ... GREG BARNS Questions for the Greens Where have all the Green voters gone? CRIKEY A new anthem Australians all let us rejoice/ For we have tasted greed/ LETTERS Dear Dick Adams ... Good luck in your bid for re-election ... 8.2% is undefeatable. You will be returned. A cutting pre-election observation, published post-election ... LEON RUSSO Plus, LETTERS Is Harry right ... ? The lonely emptiness of disappointment ... WHAT DO YOU THINK? Is God to blame ... ? A prayer ... WHAT DO YOU THINK? A powerful Governor dies ... His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter ... PHIL CROUCH Kingmaker Wednesday night's vision of John Howard shaking hands mawkishly with assorted union types and Timber Communities Australia reps was disturbing to say the least, raising the prospect of one sector of one industry in one state as kingmaker ... JASON LOVELL LAST MONTH HAVE YOUR SAY