Category Articles - Health

Duck River Flood Monitoring Reveals 42 Contaminations from 48 Tests in Just One Month

Under fire from industry, scientific panel is 'gutted'

Results of latest waterway testing for chemicals

The Devine Lie

Dossier: Why no pulp mill in the Tamar Valley is acceptable

The Power of Jarvis ...

Mt Isa and Rosebery - 'Mining' not 'mineralisation - its a fact

Woolworths and Coles pull out of big tobacco ad campaign

Why The Secret Forest Treaty Will Fail ...

BOWEL CANCER SCREENING CAN’T BE DELAYED

Canadians Call for Ban on All Outdoor Open air Burning

Why Tasmania needs a Science Reform Commission

Call on Candidates to Make Poverty History

SOUTHERN WATER STARTS ROOFING RESERVOIRS TO IMPROVE WATER QUALITY

Dr Chrissie Pickin – who do you think you're kidding?

Toxic groups reject mine/DHSS findings

Aborigines urge UN to delay convict sites World Heritage move

Air Quality Standards discussion paper

Australia's most dangerous pesticides found yet again in Tasmania's water catchments

Coles urged to extend sow stall ban

Tasmanians Exposed to 77 Dangerous Pesticides on New Australian Toxic Hit List

A list of Australia's most dangerous pesticides ...

Arsenic and Lead Contamination in Tasmanian West Coast Mining Town

Dear Prime Minister ...

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

'After 13 years State water quality policy is failing to meet objectives, or protect our water'

Doctor’s orders: No Coal

The heat is on for change

Gillard paves way to end Tasmania logging conflict

International spotlight on arsenic and lead poisoning in Australian lead mining town

Forestry Smoke ... not a good start for David O'Byrne

'Crew must not be locked on board of fumigation ship'

Farms snub fox bait layers

Whole log exports to cease ... but no-one seemed to have told Forestry Tasmania

As fumigation starts, 'Labor and Forestry Tasmania must explain whole log exports'

Here come the health cuts

The sun was shining on the sea

Poisons: More worried about politics than the science. Volatile pesticides

Phantoms in the machine: GM corn spreads to Mexico

Fundraiser in memory of kayaker

Bleaney continues water fight

Dangers of allowing forestry companies to burn native forests

Climate Code Green launched by leading experts in climate change and health.

The panel appears to have disregarded data ...

'Panel report dubious; designed to stifle debate'

'Shipping methyl bromide offshore is no solution'

Response to Panel Media Release

Findings of the George River Water Quality Panel

'Methyl bromide for logs must be abandoned'

A Sustainable Way Forward for Forestry?

Today: Findings of the George River Water Quality Panel

Premier defends A-G's voluntary euthanasia strategy

Rewards for reports of animal cruelty

The latest findings on the cause and the extent of the toxicity in the waters of the George River.

Bell Bay poison plan, never for Hobart

The farmer gets $5 a kilo. You pay $69

The forestry assault

Cancer of the Chudleigh Valley

Gunns to stop using 1080 poison ... anonymous website attacks 'deal'

Greens pleased, Libs say budget a 'let-down'

Bid to ban atrazine

No Social Licence for a Pulp Mill or Plantation Forestry

The Truth About Plantations

'Labor’s white elephant Superclinic'

Blue gum properties hit the block

Insecticide use under review after US joins ban

No to forest furnace power stations

The true story of the fall of Gray, Gay and Gunns

Premier Bartlett continues to ignore community representation

Mayor Darryl Gerrity 'a disgrace to the West Coast'

WHO predicts 21 million annual cancer cases by 2030

Clean Water and sustainable land usage

Haitian Farmers Say “Burn Monsanto’s Seeds”:

Cape Grim's new detections

UN urges global move to meat and dairy-free diet

Fears over devil export

Pondering the deeper issues of aerial spraying

All about plantation forestry ...

Why has Liberal Party backed down on $1 on maxium bet limit

Pesticides linked to diabetes

April pokie losses $17,744,041 as Federal fights bet cut

Water policy, reality and the future

Mining tax backed

Dangers of outdoor and indoor burning

At last! Action on Asbestos at Princess Wharf

George River Water Quality Panel extends deadline

Honeybee Blues: Tasmanian Beekeepers Association conference

The state of Tasmania’s biodiversity highlighted in the International Year of Biodiversity

FSC and Plantations

RSPCA urges Minister to accept AWAC advice on the welfare of pigs

Kids and pesticides don't mix

Devil calls for end to logging

Island's rabbits on burrowed time

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Scientists Reveal Glyphosate Poisons Crops and Soil

Kevin Rudd: Where is the money to find out WHY this clean, green state has so many cancers?

Taskforce Condemns Secrecy on Rosebery Meeting

More secrecy and exclusion in Rosebery Community Reference Group

Forestry burns choke East Coast ... again

Greens continue push for clean waterways and drinking water

Davo's smokewatch

The failure of the Environmental Protection Authority

Global extinctions accelerating - the World gets another Wake Up call on biodiversity loss

Syngenta science debunked

Exposure to fine particulate matter can trigger cardiovascular deaths, heart attacks

Toxicity in Water of George River - Public Release of Research Findings (2004 to 2008)

Dirty, dirty ways of the big food companies

GM, seeds of discontent

Fish problems in Tasmanian rivers ...

Anglers concerned about fish deformities

Can the Macquarie pollution be traced here?

Butts out in Hobart

Devonport Maternity Hospital: Buck passing must stop

Poppy factory effluent fear

Market Watch: Tamar Ridge for sale

Tasmanian Greens need to re-engage on foxes

Railton: Dust to daylight

Devonport Maternity Hospital asbestos needs cleaning up now

New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer

President's Cancer Panel: Environmentally caused cancers are 'grossly underestimated'

Staying Mum

George River Water Quality Panel Bias: Claim

On what basis, Dr Taylor?

Fox blitz faces resistance

Tasmania needs Water Commissioner

Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe

Roscoe Taylor plays down woodchip pile risk

Rudd government passes the “scream” test

Export of brushtail possums opposed

Meat claimed as invention by Monsanto

Greenies use 'wilder nullius' to get their way in Cape York

Slow Death by Rubber Duck

Toxins in our water ...

Georgina vs Goliath

E-petition for "Don't Burn Our Forests For 'Green'? Power"

The stakes are just too high ...

EPA investigates Gunns. Burning Tasmania: The Video

Seize the wind, Mr McKim

They must be worried

Burnie woodchip pile: The Steele Report

The FPA strategy is a failure

Minister Garrett should be sacked - Lessons for the pulp mill

Mental patient challenges abuse

Forestry smoke: This is outrageous and indefensible

The Bee All and End All – Tasmanian Bees at Risk

Accounting for Dummies—Lessons from the Forest Industry

The problem with monoculture E.nitens

Handover of the cows ...

Gay, Gray stand down

The toxins affected multiple test targets ...

The Burning of Mt. Dismal – FEA’s finale?

Regeneration burns another reason for forestry transformation

The Flare of Forestry Tasmania: My Cry From the Heart ...

The crying need for change

Rudd's tax Trojan Horse

Burning debate fires up

Burning Tasmania: Forestry halt. The facts.

Paperlinx should take responsibility for its asbestos legacy

Toxics Group Rejects Toxicology Reports on Poisoned Rosebery Residents

Experts Rule Out Heavy Metal Poisoning at Rosebery

Kevin saves Tasmania

Toxics Group Rejects Toxicology Reports on Poisoned Rosebery Residents

Alcohol and other drugs and mental illness: can we fix it? Yes we can!

RED CROSS GAY BLOOD BAN REVIEW WELCOMED

We need the facts

Permission to bait

Open Letter to Members of the House of Assembly

Environmental health issues

Climbing Mount Kinabalu in Borneo

Burning Tasmania

Is native wildlife at risk from fox baits?

Read!

George River Water Quality Panel

ONE YEAR PASSES AND STILL NO RESOLUTION FOR DR MCGINITY

Eucalyptus Strikes Back – Chemical Defence

The Smoking Gun: Who gave the orders?

Dr McGinity: What is going on?

Choking Baikal With Poison and a Foul Stench

URUGUAY: Agro-Export Boom May Have Lethal Consequences

Good news you won't read about the devil

Noosa Fish Health Issues

Water toxicity inquiry appointment questioned

Tasmania's lesson: when Labor attacks the Greens, it threatens itself

The Smoking Gun

Gunns: Gay under the cosh. Japanese get tough. Class Action mooted. Mitre 10s, Tamar Ridge to go

And, the government did what, exactly?

George River Water Quality Panel receives report

George River Water Quality Panel receives report

Outsider-Artist Bobby-z's tribute to Bolivia's Potosi miners

Awash in a Sea of Oestrogens – Atrazine One of the Culprits

Logging Red Gums is vandalism: The Lesson for Tasmania

Smoke over Chudleigh

Monocultures ... Monsters in the Making

Ten reasons why pulp plantations are so wrong

A Drive through the Tarkine

Overview Report on Dr Taylor

Dead bream, water samples and Swansea

George River: A summary of the water quality testing program

Rowallan Dam fears: Is it being kept secret?

The Truth About The Smoke

Let's not experience the despair of Roelf

The carbon cost of forestry burns in Tasmania exceeds the total carbon footprint of all Tasmanians

Forestry burns Tasmania ... and Labor

Dear Ms Giddings: They deserve much better treatment from you

Toxics Group calls for sacking of Director of Health

Toxics Group calls for sacking of Director of Health

First Anniversary of Dr McGinity's Suspension

The Trial of Michelle O'Byrne: The Sentence

The E nitens leaf is toxic

Tasmanian Election 2010: Cynicism as Virtue

Honey Bee Blues

Dr Marcus Scammell: What does this mean for Tasmania ... ?

Fear toxin review is tainted

Fears linger in paradise ... echoes of Tasmania?

Atrazine: The word is well and truly out ...

Gunns and FSC

St Helens Water – Let’s Wait for the Science

Cundall, Booth, Walsh, Bayley Dockray at water forum

A day in the life of Andrew Wilkie, aspiring MP

Call for Roscoe Taylor to resign

SOUTHERN WATER ANSWERS COMMUNITY QUESTIONS IN GEEVESTON

They wouldn't, would they ...

Victoria ... and plantations

Poll: What the AMA says ...

People of Tasmania v O’Byrne: The Judgement

Public Forum on Forest and Water Governance

Public Forum on Forest and Water Governance

Caution still needed despite findings from new devil research

Brenda Rosser's questions for the panel of scientists

T'was ever thus, in Van Diemen's Land!

Probe into water quality, panel members

Department of Health 'snoop' in St Helens?

Tasmanian Election 2010: Exposing a Weasel Democracy

Salmon superbug risk?

Tests negative: Roscoe Taylor

St Helens water supply update

Bartlett shoots the messenger

Public forum on Restoring Trust: How to solve governance issues critical to Tasmania’s future

Forest logging creates fire traps: academic

Critical devils?

Garrett to consider devils as critically endangered

Toxic Heavy Metals Taskforce puzzled by MMG conclusions

Some heavy metal readings high in Rosebery soil results

Selling Gunns shares

Concerned Lilydale Residents Angry that Government and Liberals Refuse to protect their water catc

Genetic improvement of Eucalyptus nitens in Australia

Bt Toxin and Imidacloprid from ‘Lethal Trees’

We’re crying out here that there's something in our water

Victorian tests for toxic water

Come clean on 'improved' trees ...

Plantation companies urged to come clean on 'genetically improved' trees

State of Denial

What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You – Environmental Injustice In Tasmania

Libs' 2037 vision

Libs promise $7 million for forestry

Weedkiller atrazine castrates frogs - study

The spraying

The Tasmanian Water Saga and Plantation Timber

Dr Scammell: We will provide that information

Message goes to water

Toxins: The known knowns; the known unknowns

Smokewatch

Threats to sue Alison Bleaney

Open letter to scientists and medical practitioners

What DPIWE says about Scammell-Bleaney

Parkinson’s Tasmania Celebrates the Liberal Parties Commitment

Dr Scammell: Eight independent scientific organisations

Which cancer rates in Tasmania Dr Taylor?

Information for St Helens residents

There are no genetically modified trees in Tasmania/Australia

Bleaney-Scammell and pulp mill fallout

They wouldn't, would they?

GM Nitens Coverup?

Joint Ministerial investigation needed into toxic tree plantations

Water contamination scandal warrants leaders’ debate

Meanwhile, in Germany

TasCOSS releases Electorate Snapshots

Oh, what a tangled web we weave ...

The Zombie Contagion for Plantation Isle

Here's the award, Mercury

Deadly water for Launceston and Tamar Valley

HEALTH ALERT: DEADLY WATER FOR LAUNCESTON AND TAMAR VALLEY

Do I trust your government? No, I do not! Plus: Transcripts of AS

We need a leaders' debate

TASCOSS: What really matters

Research 'warrants further assessment'

Director of Public Health’s response to new water concerns

Forestry Tasmania and 'genetically-improved' eucalypts

GREENS COMMIT TO $1.3 MILLION CHEMICAL TRESPASS UNIT

Call for probe of toxic plantations

Is all Tasmania poisoned? (2)

Georges River: Dr Roscoe Taylor's response

Georges River water supply

Toxins finding demands leaders debate on forest regulation

The toxic plantations

Toxic group no-show for good reasons

Ali's got 600 friends

GROUP PROPOSES TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR THE 'FIRST' TASMANIAN INTEGRITY COMMISSION

On the frontline

Questions for Dr Roscoe Taylor

More secrecy over Rosebery heavy metal testing

MMG AND GHD MUST RELEASE RESULTS

Clearfelling, chemicals ... and Devonport's water

Tasmania's David Roberts on national health body

Chemical policy reform urgently needed

Health Workforce Australia's first board appointed

Australian Story: Roscoe Taylor responds

Rosebery investigations

Is all Tasmania poisoned?

Rosebery: Giddings responds

Rosebery residents call for heads to roll

The determination of TT's Tasmanian of the Year

Recollections and Prognostications of an Octogenarian

TT's Tasmanian of the Year on Australian Story

The Trial of Michelle O'Byrne: A Public Address

Pesticides found in five rivers

So much thoughtless and mindless destruction

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION OF TASMANIAN WATERWAYS CONTINUES

Michele McGinity joins Liberals' Bass line-up

The Lilydale motions

Worst cancer death rate in the Commonwealth

India's GM ban

TASKFORCE CALLS ON MINE MANAGER TO RELEASE 'SCOPE' OF NEW INVESTIGATION

Bartlett Hawks veto claim

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In the face of such apathy I am gobsmacked

Is Dr Sexton working too hard?

Mt Arthur: The Planner's view

MAYOR GERRITY SLAMMED BY TOXICS GROUP

Swine flu

Australians very 'uncomfortable' with GM foods - Swinburne survey finds

Backing Dr McGinity

The meeting over Lilydale

Download: Poisoned Water Brochure

Smoke: The warning and the reality

Toxic group says no to Labor

TOXIC GROUPS SAY NO TO LABOR

Pesticide alert to family doctors

Why no action here?

Not really committed to fairness

Small mining town divided over plans to sue local mine

Add your voice

Logging Mt Arthur: Don't miss this meeting

Exclusive: Barty's latest ad

Llewellyn: Minister of State for Gunns

No Labor pollies have returned my calls. Please pressure the pollies.

Plastic ban. The Happiest Countries are green ...

Public Notice:

Ruth Howie's desperate plea for help ...

Unions welcome Asbestos Report and call for action

Dr Drielsma and biomass

Close EFSA's open doors to industry!

FOOD PACKAGING PLASTIC HARMS BABIES AND CHILDREN

Revolution in environmental health

How extensive is the woodchip pile probe?

The need for health advocacy

Slavish adherence to the corporate master

Fixing opposition from community groups

Rosebery: Council weighs in

Water: Spare a thought for the workers ...

Slater and Gordon expert for toxic Rosebery forum

Health and Environmental Investigations into Toxic Heavy Metals in Rosebery

Toxic Chemicals, Monoculture Plantations and Health

Llewellyn must answer to this catastrophe

Bees, bats & frogs dying off in droves. Diabetes trigger?

Rosebery: Problem? What problem?

Rosebery home buyers kept in the dark over poisons

WEST COAST COUNCIL CONDEMNED BY TOXICS GROUP

A deplorable response

The false pandemic

Rosebery: The place that killed them ...

Tasmania's 'silent killer' on the rise

Serves them right it crashed

ARSENIC CONFIRMED IN ROSEBERY PETS' TESTS

Rosebery: The poisoning of Kuba and Storm

Infections in hospitals

Stronger controls urged on chemicals in water

10 Steps for a Safe Climate

SOS Erin Brockovich

Mining and health: Brokovich takes on Alcoa; Helps Bindi

Climate change and the Kingston Bypass

The truth about smoke

Rosebery: Grossly deficient. Beyond belief

A massive dose of 1080

Rosebery: Who pays the piper?

Rosebery: No confidence in Dr Taylor or Dr Pickin

CALL FOR INDPENDENT MEDICAL SPECIALISTS TO HEAD UP THE NEW ROSEBERY HEALTH INVESTIGATION

I was suckered into the 'clean & green' image

Trade union calls for tanker ban

The legacy of David Llewellyn

Is there a link to this Gunns report?

Stop being hypocritical

I'm leaving ...

Devil disease hope

We have no idea what is in it

A healthy lifestyle in the country ...

How to kill pests without killing yourself or the earth......

Neglect of food sources has chooks home to roost

Chronic diseases and chemical exposure. The Burden of Diabetes

Send a copy to Minister Burke

Struggling with health issues for years...

Rosebery: Slater & Gordon weigh in. Suddenly there is action!

Lawyers welcome Rosebery environmental testing

Climate Change AND Lead Poisoning:

Rosebery Residents' Shocked at Council's Abatement Notice

Pollutants up in flames

Rosebery Residents' Shocked at Council's Notice

Health head's travel bill a costly one for taxpayers

TT Tasmanian of the Year

Gunns' spray and the clean, green facade

One in seven ...

Epigenetics research takes aim at cancer, Alzheimer's, autism, other illnesses

Lessons of the Cod Wars

Strathlynn Reflections

Why?

What a pity it has got to this

Alison, You Rock!

Alison, You Beauty

TT Tasmanian of the Year

Fear pesticides led to double-headed fish

Botch-up of chlorination levels?

Plan to fight chronic disease

NEW PREVENTATIVE HEALTHCARE ALLIANCE IS MUCH-NEEDED

Salmon producer defends bulk antibiotics use

Something rotten in the state of Tasmania

Triazines: Why do we have to wait?

This could not be further from the truth ...

Bad water ... it's not a problem for DHHS ...

Bartlett and Giddings at odds over hospital takeover

Boiling mad ... another infection of Labor's leprous touch?

Deadliest UK hospitals identified in damning report

Pollutants: Up in flames

Union urges wider asbestos study

More taxpayer funded propaganda from Lara Giddings

LILYDALE WATER SUPPLY THREATENED

$1.5 million a year extra for Community Equipment Scheme

COMMUNITY EQUIPMENT SCHEME NEEDS URGENT ATTENTION

Why is Australia not taking a ‘precautionary’ stance on BPA?

The 10-point Plan: How they fixed Rosebery

How they fixed Rosebery

Activists refused admission to North-East piggery

Rosebery: State must act

Why Tasmania needs a community-based eco-toxicology research fund

Sick LGH

EMRS polling reveals education & health top issues for Tasmanians in State Election

EMRS polling reveals education & health top issues for Tasmanians in State Election

The Rosebery tragedy

LITTLE SURPRISE AS HEALTH & EDUCATION TOP TasCOSS POLL RESULTS

TASCOSS polling

Commit to the Mersey, Labor

North-West obesity capital

Water, water ...

Some points of clarification on Rosebery

Libs to upgrade Mersey Hospital

No Pesticides Use Day 2009

Not without hypocritical and self serving motives

A form of health exclusion

Water woes

Tasmanian Schoolies – Be Aware of Alcohol Harm

Dr Roscoe Taylor 'has no evidence'

Dr Roscoe Taylor has no Evidence

Labor spin at its most disingenuous

France finds Monsanto guilty of lying

Call for bipartisan response to McCain crisis

POLLUTION GOVERNANCE UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT

APOLOGY NEEDED FOR DR McGINITY

McGinity complaints made by doctors, revealed by Giddings

Today: Peter Cundall helps launch health initiative

TAS ECO-TOXIOCOLOGY RESEARCH FUND LAUNCH

Calls to fully label GM and other novel foods

NORTH-EAST DOCTOR SERVICE CRISIS CONTINUES

HEALTH MINISTER FAILS ON SMOKING CESSATION

Win for Injured Workers

DHHS: Dame Catherine was not paid a fee

Dear Minister Llewellyn

HEALTH MINISTER BUCK-PASSES ON CHILDHOOD OBESITY

OPPOSITION TO TRIAZINES GROWS

EPA Notice to Rosebery Mine: the toxic heavy metals that dare not be monitored!

Why aren't thallium and arsenic monitored?

GOVERNMENT OBSTRUCTING ALLIED HEALTH WORKER NEGOTIATIONS

TIME FOR APOLOGY TO FORGOTTEN WILLOW COURT RESIDENTS

Eco-Toxicology Research Fund Public Launch

Tas Eco-Toxicology Research Fund Public Launch

Why FSC is preferred

Greens call for upgrading of Tasmanian Devil to Critically Endangered

Questions for the AMA and Ms Giddings

Catastrophe likely if rapid extinctions continue: UN

The pesticide menace

Australia - El Salvador

Loss of 25,766 bed days through hospital infection

Rosebery: The Delivery ...

Taskforce Warns Rosebery Residents

CALL TO REBUILD PARRAMATTA CREEK AND ST PETERS PASS TOILETS

Pretty scary ...

Explanation on nurse re-entry needed

Toxic Contaminants: The Other Scourge

Smoked out

Crusty's Corner ... being the occasional ravings of an elderly gent

It's sickening to see NHS health funding so misappropriated by bureaucrats

Thanks for ruining the birthday party

Minister says longer waiting times “good news”!

MORE SUPPORT FOR DYSLEXIA AS A SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY

Senator Bilyk raising awareness on brain tumours

This deadly woodsmoke issue

Government bypasses tenders

Smoked out ... and no-one to tell

The burning issue

Ireland bans GM crops & prioritizes organic ag

Roundup: Monsanto lied

More triazines found

MORE TESTS REVEAL MORE TRIAZINES

Tas Eco-Toxicology Research Fund launched

$40,000 for fly-in consultant

No strategies at all in place to protect people’s health

HEALTH MINISTER FAILING IN DUTY OF CARE TO PROTECT HUMAN HEALTH

Crusty’s corner

Who will lead?

Fluoride fears

LIBERAL AND LABOR COMBINE TO DEFEAT TRIAZINE BAN MOVE

Shutdown. No more answers from the Health Department

Tasmanian unions call for mandatory labelling of products containing nanomaterials

Why triazines and EDCs should be banned

POKIE LOSSES CONTINUE TO CLIMB

TRIAZINE BAN TO BE DEBATED

Who says it's green to burn woodchips?

Herbicide pollution shocker

Bleak days at Cape Grim as beef bashed

Coffee, glorious coffee!

No conditions, no excuses Mr Rudd

CALL FOR TRIAZINE BAN AFTER 139 POSITIVE TEST RESULTS IN TASMANIA

Launceston demands government commit to 350

It's time to slay the bureaucratic monster that's ruining the NHS

Sent to Members of Tasmania’s House of Assembly last night

Endosulfan is now one step closer to a worldwide ban

The Dame's Tasmanian trips: More questions

The safety of woodchip piles and my apology

Dame Catherine: More questions

Millions Will Starve as Rich Nations Cut Food Aid Funding, Warns UN

$40,000 to fly out Dame Catherine

This man required artificial ventilation ...

11 long years of Labor – and Tasmania still last for health outcomes

US EPA TO RE-ASSESS ATRAZINE AMID FEARS OVER BIRTH DEFECTS AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH

Woodchip stockpile in Tasmania a 'health risk'

Dame Catherine: No response

The Dame visited five times

Grain traders reject comingled canola

Dame Catherine joins health bureaucrats' flying visits

Nicklason: Above and beyond cant and media cowardice

Regulators Plan to Study Risks of Atrazine

BAN TRIAZINES – CHEMICAL-FREE WATER NOW!

Conservation Minister and Logging Company Supporting Herbicide Overkill in Rainforest Reserve

44% increase in 1080 use in last financial year

BARTLETT GOVT MUST SHOW COMPASSION TO THE MENTALLY ILL…

MORE NORTHERN HEALTH SERVICES TO CLOSE

Cancer specialist forced to resign

Wildlife poison shock

Another letter goes unpublished

Have Tasmanian beekeepers done a similar check?

Elimination of the illegal use of poisoned bait as a method for controlling predators in the EC

Children's Diseases Linked to Chemicals on Rise

Urgent disability funding shortfall not addressed for five months

DHSS staff’s international trip

Silica ... carcinogenic to humans

Triazine petition

Minister to sack workers, yet bureaucrats spend up on travel and accommodation

Health boss a high-flyer

BAN TRIAZINE CHEMICALS E-PETITION LAUNCHED

Brits Protest Mandatory Vaccinations

GIDDINGS SHOULD SUPPORT VITAL RFDS SERVICE …

Royal Flying Doctors

Brussels votes for pesticide clampdown

Royal Hobart Hospital jobs being slashed

Royal's $100m health remedy

Wilfred Lopes budget questioned

Lara’s short-term hospital fix

All eyes on diseased wildlife

Uruguay in denial

NATIONAL PARK FEE RISE AND JOB CUTS CONFIRMED

Support for McGinity remains strong

MINISTER THORP MUST SEEK DEBT RELIEF FROM FEDERAL COLLEAGUES

Allegations of cancer patients being denied treatment

Tasmanians have bird germ

Reality versus reality , a meditation on the modern world

Born to be big

Quality Air Tasmania

Polluters to face a minimum sentence of three years in prison

Pesticide drift: They did not take our complaints seriously ...

Tasmania, however, is going to aerial bait Macquarie Island with Brodifacoum

Is this a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing?

The slip shift

Ongoing contamination ...

Has poison been dumped on their grounds?

The growing atrazine scandal

Wage boost for Health Fat Cats

GP's full-frontal assault on Tasmania's 'carrier pigeon' health system

Atrazine unsafe at any level

Spinning glibly, smiling sweetly, and talking to us in kindergarten-speak has lost its charm

The Health burnout

The Slow Food Revolt

Atrazine: How Much Weed Killer Is Safe in Your Water Glass?

Nobody's Talking About the Silver Bullet That Could Heal the Economy and Cure Most Social Ills

Swine Flu Vaccine Linked to Paralysis, Leaked Memo Reveals

Don't let them win

The Parsons Climate Report 21AUG09

Strategic planning appears absent in Tasmania

Health: New ideas needed ...

The Burning Truth

'Time for a parliamentary inquiry into suspension of Dr McGinity'

How I lost my plants to 2,4-D drifts

'Trees of life' are vital food source

Depleted Uranium Ammunition in Afghan War: New Evidence

US knew dangers of Agent Orange ...

Aerial spraying by-law rejected

Pig farmer fined over animal cruelty

Mute-ants

Consciousness Capitalism

53 Reasons to change things around

Brazil returns hazardous UK waste

The Trial of Michelle O'Byrne

TT Question Time: Who is responsible?

Poisons website launched

Disappearing Bees

Unhealthy decision making in our Health system

Tasmanian pokie losses top $100 million in just six months

Government Swine Flu Advisor On Vaccine Maker Payroll

Telling the Truth about Toxics in Tasmania

Pity he didn't visit us ...

Tasmanian Toxic Network launch

The evidence slowly builds ...

Being helpful

Serious misinformation

Water users and food consumers beware!

Rosebery heavy metal deformities

Swine flu: the pigs are under threat ...

Nurse-led walk-in clinics

The Trial of Michelle O'Byrne

Stepping Stones...

Actions speak louder than words

Ban Glyphosate Herbicides Now

A question for Professor Brian Priestly

Death a reminder of nuclear's deadly power

Worldometers

Health prediction wrong

Resumption of the Court of The People of Tasmania

McGinity rally

The curious case of the health contracts

How to limit legal liability

Smoke, Pesticides: Open letters to Lara Giddings, David Llewellyn

It's not just the birds

Rosebery and its semi-liquid tailings dump ...

Proof that Launceston air cannot take the pulp mill

Duck River poison woe (2)

Proof that Launceston air cannot take pulp mill

People's Court of Tasmania: first witness gives evidence

Whistleblowers Tasmania supports call for Inquiry into Rosebery Toxics Report

Cubit: Tendentious in the extreme

Dr McGinity can only work three hours a day

Pictures of a protest

Quash the findings

It's time to learn from frogs

Rosebery: Inquiry sought

European Union links cancer and pesticide exposure

Consumers blind to toxic dangers at greengrocer

GM lobby to flood the world: Why?

Endocrine Society Calls for Precautionary Action

Are we really 'Roundup Ready'?

Suicide Prevention in the Tasmanian LGBTI Community

Those fugitive odours

Weed-Whacking Herbicide Proves Deadly to Human Cells

'Patients at risk'

The major problem with water safety

My fight with the Department of Health and Human Services

The Trial of Michelle O'Byrne: Your chance to participate ...

Cancer Island

DHSS staff's international tour

TT QUESTION TIME

Health boss claim

Sow stalls to continue on Llewellyn's watch

Llewellyn: Tarkine loop poses a threat to devil

The curious case of Dr Raj Mattu and Tasmanian Health Department Head David Roberts

Euthanasia?

Register of GM-Free Farms, Businesses & Councils launched

Crowd welcomes Nitschke

Mayor returns fire on Lennon

Another animal welfare failure in Tasmania!

Where do doctors take their patient concerns?

He worked too many hours

The Trial of Michelle O'Byrne

The trial of Michelle O'Byrne

Paula's tale of woe

The Trial of Michelle O'Byrne

Pesticides face ban

A risk to dying with dignity ...

The Tasmanian Court of Public Opinion is now in session

An assault on Medicare

All about consumption

Agent Orange

A photo taken by a delusional man

Government statement should be troubling to us all

I was one of those sprayed

Ignoring 3000 Tasmanians

Government dismisses poison claim

Duck River poison woe

The trial of Michelle O'Byrne

Perhaps they want Dr McGinity

The terrible causes of swine flu

Patient leaps to defence of doctor

Stench detected in GP's suspension

A million reasons to act

Pesticide link with fisheries

Misleading the public

Gay blood donor: I will fight on

The usual Fed v. States buckpassing

The government does not support this kind of service

The real issue for Minister Giddings

Tasmanian GM ban makes sense

The smoke, smell and visual impact was appalling

The vision of those suffering chooks will stay with me forever

The curious case of Dr McGinity

Air pollutants

Death with Dignity

Oh my god, he's done it again

Woolworths: monstrous monopolistic organisation

Doctors Warn: Avoid Genetically Modified Food

Tassie devil on endangered list

The Parkinson's link, cancer clusters

$9.4m hospital waste: It's everyone else's fault

Shameful treatment

Fresh concerns over river chemicals

The unfolding of a pandemic (2)

Gender benders

Tamar river. 4.30 pm. Tuesday 12th May, looking north from Swan Bay

Intensive farming must stop. Pitts charges dropped

Woolies under fire over 'cruel' pork purchase

I waited to stop crying ...

Undercover films of animal cruelty

Beautiful East Coast day ... then ...

Forestry Tasmania, the A.L.P and the right to privacy

The unfolding of a pandemic (1) - How ‘pig flu’ learned to fly

The real David Llewellyn

Luxury cars, dying animals

RHH backflip imminent

A patient of mine rang this morning ...

This is bloody appalling ...

Who takes responsibility? Apparently no-one

Fire in the forest: Unprofessional Police

Fire terror in the forest

Car on Fire, One Activist Arrested

Banned pesticides found in Hobart water

Atrazine in the Derwent?

Rats are fat after long-term exposure to lower levels of atrazine

The GM pretense

All about swine flu ...

Superweed explosion threatens Monsanto heartlands

Yet another toxic algal bloom in Launcesston's drinking water

I would put her in Risdon

Triazine health tests flawed

Can the Government be trusted with the new regional planning laws?

Been a long time coming ... now?

Atrazine in the cross-hairs ...

Herbicide Used in Argentina Could Cause Birth Defects

Keep sprinkling the triazine Julian

1994: Forestry, Ray Groom and Atrazine ...

The kernel gets a new mascot

Stop the planning review proces

Mill: Alert!

Pressure mounting for pesticides review

Clean and green Tasmania

Make a move, Davids

The Monty Python hospital

The Waste Barometer

The truth-telling of Alison Bleaney ...

Crisis for at-risk youth

11 Days in a dumpster

Pesticides in food: Still waiting to hear!

Update on the Trowunna Facial Tumour

Upset Lara

Book launch - Australia's population is aging so...

The nonsense over the latest devil disease outbreak

A Tasmanian Wildlife Park experiences another outbreak of facial tumours in its devils

Hobart residents oppose waterfront hospital: Council poll

What happened at the spray forum

What the Obamas eat ...

Move to axe pesticides

British American Tobacco secretly invades Tasmania using a “front” organisation.

Pesticides: The spraying forum

New World in the Morning?

It's heaps serious: Kevin went mental

Tasmania, fires and water catchment issues

Stop those bastards

The smell of Tassie in autumn

Mass hysteria

Why am I cynical?

Clean Air v Deliberate Forestry Smoke.

Pesticides: Another win for Georgina

Do visit our blackspot at Dilston

Burying whales may put surfers on hook instead

Health and planned burns

Theft of Life - A story of struggle against Monsanto

World Cancer Report 2008

"GMO's: Gettin'M Out of our Food"

Five healthy devils disappeared. 1080?

Arson, arseholes and the law: Part 2

Who is Mr Llewellyn trying to kid?

A clear statement on intervention

Cyanazine in the Brid River

Llewellyn ...

The spraying of a Launceston public park with Dominex Duo ...

Unempathic people

Open Letter from Concerned Scientists on the Tarkine Road and the Tasmanian Devil

Air quality fails test

Arson, arseholes and the law

Genetically Modfied Seeds: Monsanto is Putting Normal Seeds Out of Reach

Population: The elephant in the room

Hunt begins for world's most polluted places

Public forum on burns

Illogical, flawed, forestry conned logic

Some questions regarding plantation forestry

Relax ...

New RHH: Rejection in the South

Landowner feels heat

Our fate is not always in our own hands: a morality tale

Dilston bypass: an open letter

Hormone-altering chemicals

Early warning

Libs cure for RHH

Understanding each other ...

Two-headed fish

Commercial influence on science

Colony collapse

See the Gunns' stunt choppers!

In the beginning there was a river!

Pesticide data collection

Weegena community sprayed

We should not have to wait

Untimely death of so many friends

Pulp mill effluent and changes in fish fertility

'Visions link' to coffee intake

Why the Somali people are a'pirating

Lara's sacrifice

No response

Cancer: Tasmania's highest rate

The drink driving problem

Follow NZ example

Royal on the docks panned

Immune devil blow, Christine meets Ted

Hypothetical? Police Need to Expand Their Vision!

The spraying of mum and the kids

Asthma Foundation won't lobby for asthmatics

What to do if you are poisoned

Double-strength flat with appendix please

Justice, democracy and letting off flares

Pesticides: the major implications

Clive in court

Case raises spraying fears

Severe headaches and nausea ...

Ask this question!

Spraying: Government acting unlawfully

What is going on?

Libs: No waterfront hospital!

Spraying: This is not an issue of high importance

Mill disaster: the uncanny similarities

I have seen the spraying

Five versions of ‘truth’

Music tastes link to personality

Challenge to Gunns

Tassie's GM-free promise

Spraying plantations

Why BUPA is interested

Fears over chemical spraying

Tongue in cheek nonsense

Lara's junket

GE: Threat to fertility

Campaigner wins pesticide victory

EU: Better protection against pesticides

Cancer at work: the killer we must confront

Hospital outcry grows

Melamine poisoning tip of the iceberg

Farmer in chief

Tassie case hits UK press

The devils' disease

Charlie keeps the heat on GM

Wireless radiation concerns parents

Cancer clusters

More questions for the Head of Biosecurity Alex Schapp

A letter to David Bartlett

The World According to Monsanto

The Lives of Farm Animals

From here to Mongolia

The blunt instrument

Virus found in the wild

Nostradamus - Waiting for the other foot to fall.

Are they GM trees?

Pollution can make you fat

Walk with Theresa

Chemical trespass and my mum's illness

Water testing must continue

Wriedt relinguished: What Paula says

Wriedt relinguished

RHH: Libs catch the vision ...

Questions for the Head of Biosecurity Alex Schapp

Pesticides in water

Planners in revolt on RHH site

Hospital siting nonsense

Liberals reject railyards

Hospital: talk of poll

Chemicals and the public

The survivor's side of suicide

Scientists stop the ageing process

Rivers of poison

Study confirms pesticides persist in groundwater

Pesticides: disturbing findings

ER needed on railyards bid

Pesticides and St Helens

Monsanto responds to world food crisis

The Death of Nature

New Royal Hospital - Call for Public Comments

Break O'Day spray ban

Still waiting

The colour of money

Environmental Cancers

Radical makeover for waterfront

A Cry From the Heart

EU Ag Ministers move to ban hazardous pesticides

The tributes for Christopher Newell

Hobart haze blows limits

The doctors' perk

Agency Reviews of Atrazine

Some history of aerial spraying in Australia

An unhealthy state

Watch this!

Endocrine disrupting chemicals in our drinking water

Atrazine, simazine ban call

Atrazine: The other side

Atrazine poisons humans

The Asthma Foundation

Atrazine: the final review

Take a Dipso like you

Who decides?

Ostriches in the silt

The Royal Hobart Hospital grand plan

The secret role of government

Burn-off air scare

To spray or not to spray?

Third World drinking water

Cambodia ...

The toxic detail about PCBs

Nature and the Human Soul

All about atrazine

Will Wheat-Killer Fungus be used to spread GMO wheat?

Gagged?

Men in danger

Dear Nicola Roxon

A cry from elsewhere ...

Devil of a cocktail

Forest practices and water quality

Sensitive devils a pollutant risk

Pristine leaks

Battery hen bid fails

Devils ... and uranium dust!

Out of sight, out of mind

UN may ration food for the starving

Egg farmer: I'm shattered

Christian Llewellyn: How can you tolerate this?

The pits

It is not a peaceful death

The sad 1080 stories

Greens accuse government of chemical cover-up

It's a sobering thought - drink is inspirational

The case against GM crops

Toxic Tasmania

The consequence of bad eggs

Bad eggs

The spraying pictures

Greens: Battery hen farm must be closed

Dioxins and the pulp mill (working link!)

A Shadow of Doubt: 1080 in NZ

Community forum (By invitation only)!

Salmonella: McKim, Llewellyn

Llewellyn doesn't want to know...

Where are they from?

Platypus and the Hydro

We need to act NOW

All about POPs

Clean, green, pristine ...

Those fire retardants

Poison Island (2)

Down to the last croak

The solution to East Coast water problems

Desperate times at the LGH

GM: seeds of doubt

More evidence linking GM Foods to Allergic Responses

Saving the LGH

Push me, Shove you

France suspends GMOs

Call for stricter laws

What is going on?

Mr Llewellyn and contamination

Clean, green Tasmania

I will vote for this bill

The Chemical Danger: My advice

I wouldn't have saved the Mersey ...

Dioxin, paper mills, the impact

Where is the research?

The chemical dangers

Highest rate of poverty in Australia

EI: Time to vaccinate Tasmanian horses

The New Toxicology - zero plus zero equals something

Giddings: she's not serious

Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The unhealthy state

Pulpmill deathwatch

More fees please

Puncturing the GM myths

Mersey: the unhealthy prospect

But should we drink it?

So, what is happening in Tasmania?

Tell me a story before I go to bed

Any figures for Tasmania?

The Aboriginal health crisis

A Tasmanian catastrophe (3)

A Tasmanian catastrophe (2)

Salmon farmers warned

A Tasmanian catastrophe

You can't eat trees

Atrazine: world expert's visit

One toxic scallop ...

Dioxin ...

George River: it's official

Pesticides: they must act

George River pesticide spray

Pulp mill and health

Are authorities protecting our health?

The Menzies era

Contamination of the George River (2)

Closing hospitals

Contamination of the George River

Bright idea?

Mill: answers in the air

This could happen to you

Inhaling Polonium 210

Dear Minister Llewellyn

How can they do this?

The hospital backflip

Dear The Hon Paul Lennon, MHA, Premier

My pulp mill submission

Pesticides an MS trigger

Devil disease progress

A primeval tide of toxins

The quality of water is not strained

Royal: when a freeze is not a freeze

Royal decree crisis

Toxic or not ... that is the question

Waiting ... see for yourself

Pesticides in food

Forestry tops the list

Undermined by alcohol and ganja

The danger of atrazine

A grieving father ... and workers' comp

Pesticides and fruit and veg (2)

Emergency surgery

THE issue of the election

Margaret Reynolds and RU846

Up in smoke

My terrible depression

Ant allergy

A right Royal coincidence

The public needs to know

The devil disease: cowboys

Essentially, Health

Your say: Chemical spray

Fury over devil crisis dealings

Devil Disease: Too little, too late?

The Royal Project of State Significance

The fatal allergy

Your Say

Long term chemicals

Mercury, Autism and Alzheimers Disease

The Breakdown

The complaint

Tests clear ... but not final

A talk with Steve Kons

Chemicals ... the dark ages

Tax sugar