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Out of sight, out of mind

ALTHOUGH distant from Tasmania and its present day dilemmas of prisoner, citizen and aboriginal rights, the Oodnadatta Track from Maree to Alice...

Beneath the spin (2)

The Tasmanian Community Survey: Employment was released by Anglicare Tasmania on Monday. The report draws on data collected from 2106 Tasmanian adults...

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Leatherwood crisis eases

THE Forests & Forest Industry Council has announced that Forestry Tasmania is to defer 2 coupes in the Huon district and 16...

Howard’s way

SATURDAY Mercury columnist warns that if one of Australia’s neighbours ever decides at short notice to declare war on us, we’d better...

The world is watching

THE dressed-up sustainability certification that is the Australian Forestry Standard (AFS) seems to be coming unstitched for the main players in the...

Code for help

TASMANIANS for Refugees has been involved in assisting the family from El Salvador (Vanessa Ceren, her two daughters, her partner Nestor Rodriguez...

Food labels survey

At the University of Tasmania we are conducting a survey on food labelling in collaboration with Hong Kong Baptist University, and we...

We don’t know

This international export of devils (to Denmark) has totally leapfrogged the initial intention of program to get insurance populations of disease-free devils...