Gillard’s greatest spin challenge

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Speak up for our Tamar – sign our new ePetition

My volunteers and I have been generating quite a lot of activity around Launceston with the Tamar silt petition.  It calls on the Labor-Green Government to keep it’s promises including more than $6m in funding to perform ongoing dredging and silt removal from the choked-up river.  Did you know that it has now been more [...]

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On the road

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I spend more time in the car than I would like, especially buzzing up and down the Midland Highway. There’s no way I would move away from my wonderful electorate of Bass just to be nearer the parliament! When I drive, I’m never alone. One of my constant passengers is my Nikon D90.

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Entally House: past, present & future

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I recently visited my friends at Entally House Estate. I love this property, and despite what I think of as a long association with Entally (since I started campaigning to save it from privatisation in 2002) you’ve got be very careful about using references to time when talking about one of Australia’s oldest homesteads!

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Support for one of Tasmania’s most magical places

From my speech in Parliament of October 14: Mr Deputy Speaker, it is Show Day tomorrow on Flinders Island and I am looking forward tomorrow morning to travelling across Banks Strait and spending the day with some of the most hardworking, decent, community-minded and family-oriented people that I have ever known. Flinders Island is a [...]

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