Tasmanian Times
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816InternationalThe Media and 9/11: How We Did
On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, journalists are spewing forth endless retrospectives — asking people to recall “where were you when,” interviewing...
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722Environment
Pesticides increase diabetes risk
New science confirms that exposure to pesticides — especially those classified as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) — can impair the body’s ability...
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1.2KEnvironment
Air pollution and woodsmoke
Air pollution and woodsmoke are controversial subjects. A CSIRO study, partly funded by Forestry Tasmania, found that in Geeveston, a Huon Valley...
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658Economy
Mine gets priority over Tarkine
THE State Government will back mining ahead of the environment in a submission to the Federal Government on whether the Tarkine Wilderness...
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777Environment
Is national heritage a sham?
In its short existence National Heritage listing has failed to save cattle trampling the delicate plant life of Victoria’s Alpine National Park....
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757Economy
Once in a lifetime opportunity lost
Ironic that a Tasmanian Greens Alderman (On TT: Anti-development whingeing, HERE) would come out so strongly defending a development that is the...
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891History
Selling West Papua to buy Peace with Indonesia ~ Realpolitik or Terrorism?
On the 10th anniversary of the horrific acts of terrorism in New York and Washington, we may wonder if the 1962 act...
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742Economy
Going Green but Getting Nowhere
YOU reduce, reuse and recycle. You turn down plastic and paper. You avoid out-of-season grapes. You do all the right things. Good....
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853Economy
Community uproar at heritage item at risk
The Giddings (and Greens) Government has again shown callous indifference to the wishes of the voting, tax-paying public with its decision to...
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920Statements
Join DAVID FOSTER at a forum on same-sex marriage
Join David Foster, Greg Barns and other prominent Tasmanians at a forum on same-sex marriage in Hobart on Tuesday September 13th. The...
