Tasmanian Times
Economy
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Tarkine Emergency National Heritage Listing
The Tarkine National Coalition has welcomed today’s announcement of the Emergency National Heritage Listing of the Tarkine. Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett...
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Garrett only listening to fringe green groups
Prime Minister Rudd must bring his Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, under control and insist on the Minister conducting real consultation with the...
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790Obama dips a toe and REDD gets let out of the cage
Barack Obama has made his first tentative steps towards Copenhagen, invoking the military implications of catastrophic climate change in his Nobel Peace...
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Milne welcomes news of Tarkine heritage listing
Australian Greens Deputy Leader, Christine Milne has welcomed the emergency heritage listing of the Tarkine wilderness by the Federal Minister for Environment...
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Land tax: The real losers
When you have a mess, you have to clean it up. But why did the Land Tax mess occur? It was a...
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Low point for Tasmanian timber. Woodchip prices up in US
He said FEA’s been struggling since the collapse of the managed forest investment schemes, Timbercorp and Great Southern. Read more HERE Rapid...
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MORE TRANSPARENCY NEEDED FOR SPRINGS PROPOSAL
People Need to Know Scale of Development www.tas.greens.org.au The Tasmanian Greens today called on developers Sultan Holdings to be open and transparent...
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CYCLISTS SEND MESSAGE TO COPENHAGEN
Walk Against Warming bike-riders leave for Upper Florentine A team of 9 cyclists began their ride to the Upper Florentine today for...
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Day 3 – Queanbeyan’s day in the spotlight
Day 2 of COP15 saw a developing country uproar as a draft text was leaked which changes the name of the emission...
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Land Tax reform
In the last fortnight, I’ve announced changes to address one of the major concerns I’ve heard while travelling across Tasmania. We’ve taken...
