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Flat White

In defence of Tasmania

23 February 2018

8:03 PM

23 February 2018

8:03 PM

It feels a bit odd that someone like me, a native-born Canadian who has lived in Queensland for the last 13 years and before that lived for 11 in New Zealand, should be the one to write in defence of Tasmania when those like Charles Wooley and Graham Richardson writing in The Australian accuse it of being a mendicant state that brazenly lives off big money transfers from taxpayers in the mainland States (South Australia excepted).

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