Tasmanian Times
Economy
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Saving Civilization: A massive mobilization is needed to prevent total collapse
Lester Brown What if, for example, three years from now scientists announced that we have waited too long to cut carbon emissions...
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Protect the Tasmanian Brand – Oldfield
MEDIA RELEASE – TFGA “Only the national government can enforce brand reputation in Australia. In our view it is not protecting the...
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Amos, Cubit: This is sales talk; the spin you get when someone is trying to sell you something …
Dr ANDREW LOHREY We have heard the voice of industry from Julian Amos, Chairman of the Forest Industries Association of Tasmania. In...
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Gunns could save Burnie and Wesley Vale mills
PAUL OOSTING The Wilderness Society is today calling on Gunns and the CFMEU to create a win-win outcome in the long running...
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CFMEU: What about the mill closure, sacked contractors?
PETE GODFREY I was a union member for many years and can say that I would resign from any union that carried...
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Metsä Botnia pulp mill running at full capacity
HELSINGIN SANOMAT “The world’s pulp mill projects have been frozen because of the economic crisis. There is no new, modern mill coming...
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RHH backflip imminent
BRETT WHITELEY Despite the heavy political investment the Premier and Deputy Premier have made in the waterfront site for the new hospital,...
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More grief for MIS investors
SMH, via Chris THE debt-ridden agribusiness group Great Southern has gone into a trading halt pending an announcement on its managed investment...
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The gravy train …
ABC ONLINE, via Peter A confidential report has recommended an urgent review into the entitlements paid to ministerial staff in Tasmania. Read...
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The ETS Jobs Bonanza
ALEX WADSLEY There are two major sources of jobs from introducing an emissions trading scheme. In the short run there are the...
