Tasmanian Times
Economy
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MINISTER CALLED ON TO INSTRUCT RELEASE OF FOREST CARBON DATA IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
The Wilderness Society is today urging forests minister David Llewellyn to instruct Forestry Tasmania to release important data relating to carbon storage...
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Timber industry shows resilience to global financial crisis
Government statistics released yesterday confirm that Australia’s forest industries have remained resilient to the effects of the global economic crisis. These results...
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865Tassie tourism: “extraordinarily hypocritical”
I am a Tasmanian-born and educated professional person who returned recently to Tasmania to spend a few days in the Chudleigh Valley....
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Anger brews at land tax hike
SOME of Tasmania’s most influential people last night vowed to fight massive land tax hikes. At a heated rally (at Shipwright’s Arms)...
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Cost blow-out for pulp mill
The Tasmanian timber company Gunns has revealed another massive blow-out in the cost of its pulp mill project. The detail was revealed...
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Gunns ‘gains finance’
Gunns Ltd has gained finance for the Tamar Valley pulp mill, says TAP Into A Better Tasmania. The Joint Venture Partner is...
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Fewer state jobs axed
THE State Government has shed 296 public sector jobs but has not revealed how it has helped the budget bottom line. The...
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Budget update – where is the hard data?
The Treasurer’s so-called “Progress Report” on budget savings provides about as much information as an ELS report card, and it not worth...
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This gesture of restitution
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Profit jump for Federal
GAMBLING and tourism operator Federal Group has recorded an increased profit for the 2008-09 financial year. The annual report of Mulawa Holdings...
