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Published: Fri 18 Jul 2014, 2:20pm

A decades-old grants program has been temporarily suspended by Tasmania's Attorney General, while accountability mechanisms are strengthened. The Attorney-General, Vanessa Goodwin, has put a freeze on the Solicitors' Guarantee Fund, amid concerns Unions Tasmania misspent [Read more]

Published: Thu 17 Jul 2014, 9:15pm

The State Government has hailed the repeal of the carbon tax as a win for consumers. The scrapping of the tax passed through the senate late this morning and was immediately greeted with optimism by [Read more]

Published: Thu 17 Jul 2014, 3:05pm

The State Government has hailed the repeal of the carbon tax as a win for consumers. The scrapping of the tax passed through the senate late this morning and was immediately greeted with optimism by [Read more]

Published: Thu 17 Jul 2014, 2:20pm

A selection of some old favourites pulled from the vault [Read more]

Published: Thu 17 Jul 2014, 11:05am

The Liberal Government has revealed it’s only motivated by politics when it comes to an inquiry into events at Triabunna. Labor MP Rebecca White said the Liberals have disappointingly knocked [Read more]

Published: Thu 17 Jul 2014, 9:50am

The former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has broken ranks with his church and indicated that he will support a bill for assisted dying on its second reading in the House of Lords next week. [Read more]

Published: Thu 17 Jul 2014, 9:35am

After using constitutional uncertainty to justify voting against marriage equality legislation last year, Premier Will Hodgman must now consider his draconian anti-protest laws in light of Professor George Williams’ opinion that they are on ‘quite [Read more]

Published: Thu 17 Jul 2014, 9:30am

A new Crosby Textor poll on marriage equality has shown a record 72% support in Australia, with support for the reform doubling since 2004. [Read more]

Published: Thu 17 Jul 2014, 9:20am

The delay in abolishing suspended sentences is welcome, but Tasmania will remain at risk of higher rates of crime until  Attorney General Vanessa Goodwin completely abandons her bizarre policy of increasing crime rates by abolishing [Read more]

Published: Thu 17 Jul 2014, 9:15am

An IT lobby group is urging the Communications Minister to visit Tasmania to sort out problems with the rollout of the National Broadband network. Topics: telecommunications, federal-government, states-and-territories, tas [Read more]