Tasmanian Times
Economy
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Pistol-whipped
ROBERT GOTTLIEBSEN, Business Spectator The Gunns pulp project in Northern Tasmania could start construction within three months but for one problem –...
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FEA: From bad to worse; MIS trials and tribulations
JOHN LAWRENCE Last Friday’s ASX announcement foreshadowed MIS sales for 2009 to be significantly less than $60 million achieved in 2006 and...
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Dear Mr Burke
WILLIAM BOEDER Forestry is but another form of Whale-hunting, though the objects in their case be the supposedly protected Ancient Forests of...
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Super: Biggest fall since ’92
SMH Superannuation fund returns fell 13.3 per cent in the 2008-09 financial year, the biggest drop since the introduction of compulsory super...
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Jobs: Backing for ACL, mills in the balance
RACHEL WILLIAMS, Examiner ROCHERLEA-based ACL Bearing Company will finalise by September its 14-point plan to boost the company’s performance, after the Federal...
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Economy: Short-term stimulus; long-term jitters
ABC ONLINE The Reserve Bank and the Treasury are relying on demand from China to insulate Australia from the global economic crisis,...
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Poll rejects pulp mill
BOB McMAHON, TAP Into A Better Tasmania Who is the government working for, foreign operatives or the Tasmanian public? “Federal Minister for...
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The Fair Work Act 2009 is a defining shift for the ALP
ROB DURBRIDGE President, SEARCH Foundation The Fair Work Act needs reform so that labour legislation provides rights and fair processes for the...
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Jobs on the line
RACHEL WILLIAMS, Examiner ACL Bearing Co could slip into insolvency within days if it can not come to agreement with the State...
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889The flawed methodology of this report is not the template to follow
GRAEME WELLS, School of Economics and Finance, University of Tasmania. A Critique of Assessing Direct Government Subsidies Paid to Tasmanian Industries (A...
