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• Environment

  Gunns manipulated Government

  ABC Online The Tasmanian Greens have accused the timber company Gunns of manipulating the State Government. Greens leader Peg Putt says Gunns...

• Coroner & Legal

  Police probe legal post

  Sue Neales Mercury POLICE are investigating an explosive new allegation of corruption at the highest levels of Tasmanian political and legal circles....

• Environment

  Dambusters: The protest that turned the tide of global green opinion

  Kathy Marks Independent UK It is 25 years since a band of protesters won their campaign to block the construction of a...

• Environment

  Anger over lost jobs as Gunns shuts mill

  GUNNS Ltd is to axe 129 jobs next week when it closes the former Auspine sawmill at Tonganah, near Scottsdale, and consolidates...

• Environment

  Happy Birthday, Franklin River

  Michelle Paine Mercury Prof Bellamy, who spent his 50th birthday in Risdon jail, led the singing of happy birthday to the river....

• Environment

  Guts, blood and beer

  Jon Ayling When I finally dragged my ‘kill’ back to camp my legs started shaking and tears running down my cheeks. There...

• Environment

  The retirement of John Gay?

  Paul Oosting Wildernes Society MR “The Wilderness Society calls on Mr Gay to retire sooner rather than later and allow for new...

• Environment

  Dambuster Bob Hawke takes aim at pulp mill proposal

  Matthew Denholm Australian BOB Hawke has attacked the pulp mill proposed for Tasmania, describing its environmental impact as “devastating”. Read more here

• Health

  Radical makeover for waterfront

  Sue Neales Mercury DETAILED makeover plans for Hobart’s Macquarie Wharf railyards and docks area containing the new Royal Hobart Hospital will soon...

• Environment

  All clear for pulp mill delay

  Michael Stedman Mercury THE State Government has given Gunns Ltd until November 30 to begin construction of its $2 billion pulp mill....