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• Environment

  Ralphs Bay: Voter backlash awaits

  In the likely event the Lennon Cabinet meets today to decide whether to endorse or reject Tasmania’s first canal housing plan, its...

• Forestry

  Forestry’s jobs-offshore strategy

  THOUSANDS of tonnes of eucalypt logs piled on Hobart’s wharf for export represent wasted job growth opportunities for the timber industry. There...

• Forestry

  Crisis? Rehash the past

  Using a smear campaign against conservationists is a transparent attempt to pass the buck. We are witnessing the usual industry and government...

• Health

  The fatal allergy

  CURRENTLY, around 12,000 Tasmanians and an estimated 60,000 Australians are known to suffer a serious allergy to Jack Jumper Ant stings. Of...

• Forestry

  Your Say: Highly offensive

  Dear Senator Macdonald, I found your media release referring to people who are genuinely concerned about the consequencess of industrial clearfell conversion...

• Arts

  Little Birdy: A eulogy

  The Band: Little Birdy The Album: Big Big Love POPULAR music today seems so cynically driven by the bottom line. Slick producers,...

• Article

  Your Say

  Dear Evan, I fell about laughing after I read your letter in The Mercury (Friday August 5). You do not seriously expect...

• Economy

  Chips too dear: Price blamed for slump

  TASMANIAN woodchips are becoming too expensive for the Japanese paper industry to buy, Australia’s leading forest products economist has warned. Robert Eastment,...

• Politics

  Labor … and workers’ comp

  ON 23rd November 2000 the then Minister for Infrastructure, Energy and Resources Mr Lennon proposed to the Tasmanian Parliament that there be...

• Article

  Another Lennon lemon

  THE list of Lennon-Bacon failures seems to just keep growing and the Government’s slick spin-doctoring machine can no longer paper over the...