Tasmanian Times

Loggers spit chips

TASMANIA’S divisive forestry debate was reignited yesterday after a Japanese paper mill announced it had stopped buying woodchips sourced from old-growth forests....

The riddle

Proper pulp mill process

A) All Integrated Impact Statement (IIS) work relating to impacts on the public should be identified, forecast and carried out by competent,...

The gagging of Peter Cundall

PRESENTER Liz Jackson ended last night’s Media Watch with the “pulping of Peter Cundall”. Said Jackson: “What a relief now to get...

Community Forest Dis-Agreement

Timber Workers for Forests are concerned that the Community Forest Agreement signed between State Premier Paul Lennon and Prime Minister John Howard...

Pulp smoke and mirrors

IT APPEARS from the recent fuss about the changes that Gunns made to their pulp mill proposal, that the nature of the...

Your Say

Stodgy, myopic, complacent Only a few weeks ago Barns berated the Tasmanian Times (again), (World class forestry practice Comments), for allegedly “leading”...

Tasmania’s revival

MAINLAND commentators have become accustomed to dismissing Tasmania’s economy as a basket case. Indeed, so bad have many of the statistics on...

Valedictory — Brian Harradine

Senator HARRADINE (Tasmania) (5.59 p.m.) — Before anything else, I want to — and, in fact, need to — acknowledge those friends...

In Their Own Words (Political)

RENE HIDDING, MHA Leader of the State Opposition Wednesday June 29, 2005 Tennis centre upgrade long overdue Opposition Leader Rene Hidding today...