Tasmanian Times
Economy
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The Proceeds of Crime
George Monbiot Published in the Guardian, 3rd March 2009 The US and British governments have created a private prison industry which preys...
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Tasmania can learn from Samso
phill Parsons The Danish island of Samso [pop. 4,000] expended $70M in 10 years to take its rural economy from an energy...
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AFL: Give me back my $4,500 in Stamp Duty, Airdy
Jarvis Cocker There’s a big difference between sport and entertainment. AFL is entertainment, and we shouldn’t have to pay tax to subsidise...
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Forestry Tas should be disbanded and subsumed by Parks
Nifty FORESTRY TAS should be disbanded and subsumed by Parks. Too long we taxpayers have innocently propped up this juggernaut of hypocrisy....
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Global pulpwood prices plummet
Wood Resource Quarterly The attached news bulletin from WRI tends to confirm that the market for pulp and paper is exceptionally weak...
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Theft of Life – A story of struggle against Monsanto
Percy Schmeiser A story of the struggle against Monsanto and the corporate takeover of our genetic inheritance I am a seed developer...
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The real nature of our ‘financial’ crisis
Mike Bolan In this issue you’ll find the Baltic Dry Index and a breathtaking photo that indicates the real nature of our...
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How long to repay debt…
Mike Bolan Just for interest, here’s the result of some research I’ve been doing that organises global countries by the approximate time...
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The pulp and paper industry – a paradigm for Australia’s annihilation
Brenda Rosser The economic strength of a society relies on their being adequate health care, a clean environment, broadly-based prosperity and the...
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Pieces of Mind, Kyoto Protocol
Brenda Rosser Piece One: Global models that include the feedbacks between climatic change and the carbon cycle have all shown decreased carbon...
