Tasmanian Times
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Environment
Environment protectors limited
Mark Worley Mercury THE Environmental Protection Authority has only one permanent staff member and will have limited scope to police the forest...
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Coroner & Legal
Police gear up to cope with pulp mill protest
Mark Worley Mercury TASMANIA Police has crafted a plan to deal with big protests at Gunns’ proposed pulp mill. Commissioner Jack Johnston...
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Environment
Hobart haze blows limits
Michael Stedman Mercury HOBART’S air quality breached national guidelines twice during the autumn burn-off season. Records released yesterday show harmful PM2.5 pollution...
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Politics
Crippling debts spark fears for councils
Mark Worley NEARLY two-thirds of Tasmania’s 29 councils operated in the red last year – and five are in dire financial trouble....
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Politics
Paula and the dead trees
Jon Ayling My brother in law recently went to stay at the Cradle Mountain Chalet. As it was relatively quiet he had...
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Coroner & Legal
The need for a public ethics commission
Henry Melville Tasmanian Times readers……are you going to be a mob of sheep roused together by the sheep dogs, sent through the...
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Democracy Tasmania
Oh, Damon …
Hag HOW delicious … it appears that the champion of all things development, particularly the pulp mill – TCCI boss Damon Thomas...
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Environment
Dear Kevin Rudd: TAP’s desperate mandarin plea
Bob McMahon TAP The letter was sent Priority Post on June 2nd 2008. As yet there has been no reply. “We apparently...
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Politics
HCC: Gosford hasn’t got the same pulling power…
Margot Giblin Half of the total of twelve Hobart City Councillors are now visiting France this summer at Council expense. They are...
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Environment
What Forestry Tasmania don’t want you to see…
It is notable how quickly FT removed the multiple prior statements that were presented on its website and were linked to under...
