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• Environment

  Pulp mill on the backburner

  Nick Clark Mercury GUNNS Limited has placed the $2.2 billion Bell Bay pulp mill on the backburner until the global financial crisis...

• Politics

  Breaking the poverty cycle

  Premier David Bartlett TASCOSS Breakfast Speech. Thursday 30 October 2008 I want to talk today about how we can break the poverty...

• Democracy Tasmania

  Bid to call Lennon, Gay fails

  Michael Stedman Mercury THE Greens have failed in an attempt to call former premier Paul Lennon and Gunns chairman John Gay before...

• National

  Doubts on internet deal

  Michael Stedman Mercury Consumer group Digital Tasmania took little comfort from the Treasurer’s words. “Two weeks ago we heard a few rumours...

• Environment

  Forest industry review

  Sue Neales Mercury THE State Government has begun a major review of the forest industry. The review coincides with continuing tensions between...

• Article

  Don’t miss…

  Liila Hass Joint launch Sustainable Living Expo and Future Tasmania Showcase, tomorrow (Oct 31), Bahai Centre, 1 Tasman Highway. Closing panel on...

• Economy

  Green Politics, the Balance of Power and the Green New Deal

  Christine Milne Speech to the Sydney Institute, Mo, Oct 27 Victor Hugo once said “There is nothing so powerful as an idea...

• Environment

  Florentine’s front line

  Sue Neales Mercury Miranda Gibson, a fragile-looking teacher from Brisbane who specialises in caring for special-needs pupils, has been living rough in...

• Politics

  The committee as ICAC

  Mike Adams Bartlett doesn’t want the cleaning lady or the postie giving evidence, and used the idea to mock the Committee. As...

• Environment

  Labor drives the wedge

  Jon Ayling I often wonder if there are any members of the Labor government who feel slightly concerned or perhaps embarassed that...