Tasmanian Times
Economy
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730Gunns’ pulp mill: We’re not out of the woods yet
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Logging more native forests has not created secure timber jobs
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Logging more native forests has not created secure timber jobs
With falling international demand for native forest woodchips forcing weeks-long closures of chip mills, many timber contractors and workers across Tasmania are...
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Hands up, says Gunns
Hands up, says Gunns. Australian, 14 December 2009: HERE Investors in Great Southern would do well to investigate who is holding the...
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Gunns reloads
IN THE annals of Australian forest protest, the battle of Baker’s Creek should barely rate a mention. It was a small, grim...
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Stop the subsidies to stop the conflict
The issue of whether we can end the conflict in Tasmania’s forests has come up recently. Some people have questioned whether we...
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A waste of taxpayers’ money
Michael Wood from Forestry Tasmania is wrong to suggest that opposition to wood-fired power stations is based on ideology rather than science....
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Paper trees in precious ground
Two huge plantation industries are sweeping Indonesia: palm oil and acacia trees used to make paper. But most of the land left...
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India maintains its poker face, Africa demands free chips, and Mexico brings it’s own
Copenhagen Texas Hold’em host Connie Hedeggard passed judgement at the halfway mark of proceedings, saying “we have made considerable progress over the...
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It’s capitalism or us, I guess
RECENTLY, an article published on the Bloomberg website entitled ‘China Factory Output Rises 19.2%, More Than Forecast’ has left me rather confused...
