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843EconomyFire and humans
Professor of Forest Ecology David Bowman from the University of Tasmania in Hobart, talks about human involvement with fire and its consequences....
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949Economy
Plantations up in biomass smoke
EXCLUSIVE: Great Southern Plantations receiver McGrathNicol is under attack over the foreign sell-off of 252,000ha of farm land. And the chief executive...
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817Opinion
The Politics of Tasmania: How to Lose Friends and Ostracise People
The political shenanigans that have been prevalent in Tasmanian politics prior to and since the last State election have led me to...
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1.4KEducation
The Harry Holgate Book or a Wikipedia indulgence … ?
Information about former Tasmanian Premier Harry Holgate is scarce. He was born in Maitland, New South Wales in 1933 and died of...
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694Economy
Muddling through … ?
Hi Peter. Regional planning processes in Australia, as Oliver would know, have been fairly accurately described as pragmatic incrementalism or muddling through....
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813Economy
The Question …
In response to the questions raised by Steve Biddulph earlier on TT HERE: The Question: In an economic crash, how do we...
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1.1KCoroner & Legal
Walker Corp fined a record $200,000 for unlawful land clearance
ONE of the country’s biggest property developers has been fined $200,000 by the NSW Land and Environment Court for unlawfully clearing 23hectares...
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789Economy
Political parties violate our rights to privacy
WHAT a wonderful thing that the federal government, indeed politicians of all political stripes, are taking such an astute interest in citizens’...
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842Environment
Naughty Tobacco Industry – needs a good spanking
Nannies are lovely people. It is reprehensible that the tobacco industry is vilifying nannies. What next? Abusing apple pies? Slandering Snowflakes? Maligning...
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633Economy
Sustainable Agriculture and Off-Grid Renewable Energy
An emerging scientific consensus that a shift to small scale sustainable agriculture and localized food systems will address most, if not all...
