Tasmanian Times
Economy
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1.4KAustralian journalism’s freak show: how a serious newspaper deals with its enemies
First published October 22 Journalism is in crisis, we’re told constantly. But there’s another journalism crisis that has been disrupting and polluting...
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‘Greens push for establishment of Marine Plastics CRC in Hobart’
Greens Senator for Tasmania, Peter Whish-Wilson and Greens Candidate for Pembroke, Alderman Bill Harvey are pushing for the establishment of a Marine...
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Come in ‘Jonesy’
The’ve changed the top editorial position again at the Mercury. In comes Chris Jones, above, from Brisbane’s Courier-Mail and Sunday Mail, as...
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Ross Bridge Festival
Read more here *Kim Peart … When launching a Viking Society in Tasmania in 1975, someone suggested I read the book, The...
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The exotic plantation curse: an environmental and fiscal catastrophe …
*Pic: The once vast native grasslands, now denuded and converted into a biological desert. Surrey Hills. First published October 25 Almost 3...
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The End of the Beginning …
In 2016 the attention of the world’s media was once again on Iraq. A previously little-known group of Sunni militants fighting under...
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An apocalyptic future … ?
After some three years of frustration with Forestry Tasmania, the Forestry Practices Authority and the Minister, I penned the post below to...
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Big tobacco targets children with toxic filters. AGAIN …
*Pic: Photo by Alamy: purchased by Dr. Kathryn Barnsley Filters are a toxic cigarette engineering fraud, perpetrated by the tobacco industry, that...
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NATION: Turnbull government fails Australians on energy and jobs
*Image from Mamamia, HERE First published October 23 Super Mal, our super-antihero PM, the down-under “wonder-gunner” blitzes Canberra’s political firmament this week,...
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World’s wilderness at further risk
*Pic: Ted Mead – Sunset over a volcanic rim in Eastern Indonesia. Pic – Ted Mead – Australia’s desert wilderness in bloom...
