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• Isabel Storey: I have a lot of respect for you in your fight for veterans and for the people of Tasmania, but today I can only feel and express my great disappointment in your action this day. Many Australians... (2 days, 18 hours ago)
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• Isabel Storey: I have a lot of respect for you in your fight for veterans and for the people of Tasmania, but today I can only feel and express my great disappointment in your action this day. Many Australians... (2 days, 18 hours ago)
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• Andrew Jackson: Our wages system has become far too complicated since the introduction of Enterprise Bargaining, Time to mandatory Industry Wide Award system with a requirement that only those being paid 3 or 4... (2 days, 19 hours ago)
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• Charlie Schroeder: Is this for real? What a ridiculous equation to attempt to demonstrate that logging should continue? This is as stupid as the politician that was willing to live a week on the money that... (3 days, 10 hours ago)
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• Alis Jacob: Yes, absolutely YES. Keep pressuring these truths onto the Parliament, makes me wonder what has happened that changed our Parliament into NON representation as it is the case in point regarding... (3 days, 17 hours ago)
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• Bill Thomson: What is so unjust about Vattenfall being able to pursue the German government for its completely unjustified trashing of extremely valuable assets? If that's the policy Germans voted for, they... (4 days, 19 hours ago)
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• Andrew Jackson: Senator McGrath Dams are a natural monopoly. A free market can therefore not work. Government has a responsibility to build dams so that anyone on reticulated water has water without... (2 weeks, 4 days ago)
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• Andrew Jackson: Congratulations. It has taken Liberal Party 62 Years to catch up to position of Vince Gair when he was Premier of Queensland. WE need the Bradfield Scheme. Andrew Jackson apjackson2@bigpond.com (2 weeks, 4 days ago)
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• Bill Thomson: "...four to six degrees of global warming by the end of the century. To spell it out for citizens: that is the end of the human race" This is a misrepresentation of the science. “I don’t... (3 weeks, 1 day ago)
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• Bill Thomson: "Nuclear power is just too toxic" This level of ignorance completely unmoored from objective reality is a disgrace to the parliament. (25 October 2019)
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