Tasmanian Times
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Environment
Pesticides and fruit and veg
ARTICLES on this matter have recently appeared in The Guardian newspaper: Is Organic worth it?: www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/O..1743666.00.html And Choice magazine: Pesticides in our...
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Society
April fool!
From … No Tern Unstoned — Musings at Breakfast, by Tim Bowden, published by ABC Books, 2004: One of the problems faced...
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Politics
The forced marriage
Extract: Michael Field, who spent three years as Premier during the Labor-Green Accord from 1989-92, says that alliance was a “forced marriage”...
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Environment
Fox believer
MY wife and I have been members of the Wildcare group, Friends of Lillico Penguins, for three years. On Monday evenings during...
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Environment
Fox sceptic
SOME biologists are convinced that foxes have established in Tasmania. In 1998 a fox travelled on a freight ferry across Bass Strait...
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Environment
Beatles, Brahms and Blackbirds
ALTHOUGH I write the “One the Wing” bird column in The Mercury, this is not my day job. I’m actually a sub-editor...
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Environment
My call to the spray complaints unit
I called the Spray Complaints Unit in Tasmania today and spoke to Peter Lee Archer. I asked a number of questions related...
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Article
Cross-cultural sensitivity?
THERE is a Japanese aesthetic called wabi-sabi. It’s not easy to define. It’s a quality found in the contemplation of imperfection and...
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1.2KEnvironmentInto the Florentine
Eagle: Photo under zoom reveals a young eagle, centre, says TWS. FORESTRY Tasmania has declared 400 hectares of the scenic Upper Florentine...
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Politics
The Denison message
WITH the counting over and the vagaries of Hare-Clark demonstrated yet again, Tasmania has elected the status quo. The only thing that...
