Let’s end the cruelty of illegal detention

Taken into detention from the Queensland town Biloela more than three years ago, the Murugappan family — dad Nades, mum Priya and daughters Kopika and Tharnicaa — have unwittingly become…

Getting into the spirit of lower taxes

Reducing the whopping tax burden on Tasmania’s award-winning whisky, vodka and gin producers will free up funds to help many local businesses flourish. Less than 10 years ago, there were…

What’s left to do on the Bass Highway anyway? Diamond-encrusted cat’s eyes?

The Federal Budget is good so far as it starts to address serious problems in areas as diverse as aged care, the NDIS, mental health, skilling workers, childcare and the…

A statement on the Defence Royal Commission

The community will breathe a sigh of relief that finally the Federal Government has decided to hold a Royal Commission into veteran and serving member suicides. While the Government’s refusal…

Getting into the spirit of lower taxes

Reducing the whopping tax burden on Tasmania’s award-winning whisky, vodka and gin producers will free up funds to help many local businesses flourish. Less than 10 years ago, there were…

Parliamentarians take Julian Assange case to US Embassy

This morning the Co-Chairs of the Bring Julian Assange Home Parliamentary Group, George Christensen MP and Andrew Wilkie MP, met with Michael Goldman, Charge d’Affaires at the US Embassy in…

Spirit sleight of hand has not fooled consumers

If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. This old adage certainly applies to the free-car scheme on offer on the State Government’s Bass Strait ferries. Sadly,…

Mac Point: the road to nowhere?

The news today that the Macquarie Point Corporation has finally built a road at Mac Point is just a reminder of how poorly this project has been managed. More than…

A statement on Tassie’s latest pokies figures

The October poker machine figures have been released and they show another big increase in losses compared with the same month last year. Indeed the $16,961,711 is up about $2m…