Word: tasmania
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...Diemen's Land, (Black Inc., 388 pages) historian James Boyce argues compellingly that such a story wasn't true for all settlers. His focus is "the ordinary people" of early Tasmania, which as Van Diemen's Land received nearly half of all convicts shipped to Australia. Settled in 1803, it was soon ignored by London (at war with France) and Sydney (busy keeping its own population fed and under control), and, short on food supplies, set about fending for itself. Which it did, as Boyce shows, very well. For where Sydney's thick coastal scrub thwarted hunters, Van Diemen...
...damaged your reputation as the news magazine of record. I expect TIME to provide me with timely information on influential people and forces in the world, as odious as they may be. You blinked in 2001 and sided with the proselytizers of the American Way. Tony Richman, Launceston, Tasmania...
...Mohamed Haneef, suspected of complicity in a British bomb plot. A scornful Bob Brown, leader of the Greens Party, continued the list. "Labor and the Coalition are exactly the same," he said, "on logging native forests, exporting more uranium, increasing coal mining and approving the Gunns pulp mill" in Tasmania. Cartoonists began drawing Rudd as a smaller version of Howard. Sydney student Hugh Atkin posted a video clip on YouTube depicting Rudd as China's Chairman Mao: "He unnerve decrepit Howard by deploying clever principle of 'similar difference'," the subtitles read...
Indeed, on many issues - a new pulp mill in Tasmania, tax cuts, school funding - Rudd has simply echoed the government. That tendency prompted long-serving Treasurer Peter Costello to declare: "The more I hear from Kevin Rudd, the more I wonder whether even Kevin Rudd wants a change of government...
...Bill Shorten "We are a party of hope and innovation and change." Experience: Australian Workers' Union national secretary Widely touted as a future Labor leader, Shorten shot to national prominence as the public face of efforts to rescue two trapped miners in Tasmania last year. He's young, smart, articulate - and well-connected on both sides of politics: his wife is the daughter of former federal Liberal M.P. Julian Beale. Running for a safe Labor seat, he is destined for a ministry...