Tasmanian Times
Economy
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ANZ: second thoughts?
Ethical Corporation Australian bank ANZ is having second thoughts about financing the controversial Gunns pulp mill in Tasmania. Gunns, Australia’s largest wood...
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Hydro and Forestry foolishness
Ben Quin The circumstances regarding the very poor performance of the Hydro Basslink deal should also be put to Forestry Tasmania in...
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Mill: the risk factor
Mike Bolan The Gunns board has a lot to thank mill protestors for During the entire period of the pulp mill ‘approval’...
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Gunns in a bet-the-company project, says pundit
GOVERNMENT approval of Gunns’ proposed Tasmanian pulp mill is one issue, but few seem to be focusing on the fact that the...
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Reading into the pulpmill fictions
Judith Ajani Canberra Times The silent sleeper in the Gunns pulp mill debate is its commercial viability. Perhaps Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull,...
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The credit market bubble
Saul Eslake There have been ‘bubbles’ in property markets in many countries, including Australia, in recent years; and there has also been...
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State’s pokies jitters
Philippa Duncan Mercury THE State Government would demand compensation if a Labor federal government tried to wind back poker machines. Opposition Leader...
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The finance problem
Mike Bolan Investors are right to be concerned for a number of important reasons: 1) All mill performance information has come from...
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Gunns bottom line and strategy (1)
Henry Melville According to the Criterion column in Business section of The Australian, the Tasmanian treelopper – Gunns Ltd shares are to...
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The Hawk-eyed government
Henry Melville Tasmania with a population comparable to a number of metropolitan councils in Sydney or Melbourne has well over two-thirds of...
