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Styx and stones

Political protest will never be the same if a timber company successfully sues logging protesters. The full report: Styx and stones Also:...

Bloodymindedness overruling commonsense

That the buyer of the wood did not make a gesture about heritage and agree to let the owners out of the...

South Sister: Death of an icon

The South Sister, 831m above sea level is a few km north of St Marys, Tasmania. This mountain is a local icon...

That sinking feeling

Philip Wolfhagen: Outstanding Artist

My good friend Bacchus No-Smoke was having a drink with cronies at the Henry Jones Art Hotel on the Hobart waterfront where...

We are very close to packing our bags

We all know that this smaller coupe is only the beginning of the future plans to ruin the ambience and beauty that...

The unreasonable man

If I’ve learned anything in my 70 years of living, it’s that progress only comes from continually challenging the status quo. Not...

Council blocks logging … is this a Tasmanian first?

Tonight (Monday, Jan 24) the Kingborough Council deliberated on a Development Application from Gunns Ltd. for another coupe at Middleton. Part of...

The Gunns 20 Litigation

Gunns – the giant Tasmanian logging company – is suing 20 environmental activists and organisations for $6.3 million. The company claims the...

The terminally and habitually incompetent

About 230 years ago, James Boswell recorded Dr Johnson’s “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel” in his volume 2 of...