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Why I believe Tasmania’s DPP needs to resign

Legal columnist HUGH SELBY believes the Tasmanian Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions needs to be remade from top to bottom. He says it needs new leadership that believes in, and acts upon “fair process and fair trials”. 

Opinion

Should we worry when stars fall from the sky?

You have more of a chance of being struck by lightning or kicked to death by a donkey than dying through meteorite impact. But should we be concerned? ROSS FITZGERALD & DICK WHITAKER say the short answer is no, but the long answer is yes!

Opinion

KEEPING UP THE ACT

Out the mouths of babes... our Jolly Chiefster discovers his pool plans aren't all he's pretending they are.

Opinion

Why doesn’t travel insurance cover war?

You might think war was exactly the kind of scenario you’d buy travel insurance for in the first place – a major, unforeseen international event that causes travel chaos. Not so, says PAUL LATIMER.

Arts

Music

Grand finished to an absorbing concert

"A certain fun was had here with an awareness that the first violin is not always the logical star and that the other instruments have voices, too," writes reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN.

Art

Innovative Canberra textile artist dies at 76

Central to Keiko Amenomori-Schmeisser's artistic practice was the Japanese textile tradition of shibori, a complex form of resist dyeing. Arts editor HELEN MUSA pays tribute to this innovative artist...

Lifestyle

Wine

The Rhone Valley calls, a bottle at a time

'It went very well with the lamb and, in order to keep the half bottle left over, I’ve stored it in the fridge.' Wine writer RICHARD CALVER has no qualms about keeping red wine cool. 

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