Tasmanian Times
Economy
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$12 million for the world’s biggest meat company
$12 million loan, interest-free for 15 years – how much interest foregone? At 8% interest, that’s $960,000 annually. JBS Swift is the...
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Markets Demand Plantations products
Our Common Ground today said it understood Glen Britton’s concern about the future of the timber industry, was disappointed by his adversarial...
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Gunns’ 5 year share price decline
That red line on the graph shows the last five years of Gunns trading history on the Australian Stock Exchange. Concentrate on...
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Copenhagen fallout
A document leaked from the UN secretariat suggests that, even if (and it’s a very big if) the various pledges made at...
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Show us the money Dave
A desperate Labor Government despised by a majority of Tasmanians has now been left with only one strategy and one hope to...
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Health head’s travel bill a costly one for taxpayers
TASMANIA’S taxpayers have forked out nearly $100,000 for travel overseas and interstate by Health Department secretary David Roberts since he arrived in...
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None would pass FSC standards
Plantation conversion of old-growth, Styx 2008 Plantation conversion of old-growth, Styx 2008 Rainforest logged and burnt, South Esk catchment Rainforest logged and...
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Japanese buyers could halt old-growth logging
AFTER a generation of forest conflict in Tasmania, an end to old-growth logging could be in sight, forced by global market demand....
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Flogging logging in the Age of Climate Change
As the world’s leaders dithered in Copenhagen last week over the future of the planet, in Australia, Gunns, the CFMEU & other...
