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  Hobart City Council and drug dealing

  TASMANIA’S drug problem must have reached epic proportions. Adding new layers meaning to the Hobart Tip motto, “Don’t Waste Hobart”, the sign...

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  Beaconsfield: the dangers

  A successful outcome to the rescue operations at Beaconsfield is still far from certain. The final metre of tunneling will be the...

• Environment

  Dear Mr Abetz

  Thankyou for your reply to my email of February 2006. I am pleased that you have reviewed the documentary Two Visions and...

• Media

  Four choppers, a plane and a princess

  THE media heavies who have converged on Beaconsfield are treating residents either with a) the utmost respect or b) scant regard for...

• Environment

  End of the Weld … Tiger country

  ONE of the least known and seldom visited wilderness areas of the state is Southern Tasmania’s Weld River Valley. Up unto recently,...

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  Mine: Blasting reckless

  THE Beaconsfield mine management was “reckless” in its blasting practices, says a local resident who had been complaining about mining-related seismic activity...

• Media

  Mine: the media disgrace

  THE Beaconsfield mine disaster and on-going rescue effort has polarised public attention and that of the Fourth Estate. I’m speaking as one...

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  Beaconsfield mine safety

  A CLOSED meeting of the West Tamar Council debated safety concerns over seismic activity in the area just two months before the...

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  They’re alive

  RESCUERS at the Beaconsfield Mine discovered something far more precious than gold earlier tonight when they made contact with their two colleagues...

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  Beaconsfield and Mac Bank

  From The Australian editorial, April 29-30: But the evidence that has come to light in the past few days, revealing a dangerous...