Tasmanian Times
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1.3K1080 and the contamination of water
*Pic: Clyde Graf Water contamination is of concern the world over currently; Tasmania has had its concerns as well with long lists...
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‘I am just so happy to be alive’, he said …
Many people in Afghanistan risked their lives and their families to help foreign journalists. But foreign correspondent John Martinkus says after the...
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Sex industry lobby group disrupts Survivor book launch
On Sunday 21 August, sex trade advocates tried to derail the launch, in Townsville, Queensland, of Prostitution Narritives, a recently published compilation...
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The threat posed to women’s rights …
Image from HERE The Women’s Liberation Front Southern Tasmania (WoLF Tas) has written to Tasmanian and Victorian MP’s warning them about the...
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NATION: a government drowning by numbers
Pic: From Greg Hunt’s Twitter feed, HERE A fistful of dollars at the ready, our PM stoops to help a beggar on...
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Why Huon Valley Council should still be sacked
*Pic: Simone Watson, Peter Gutwein and Peter Coad Huon Valley Guessing Games It’s struggling, yet, kinda-sorta, “dysfunctional” Huon Valley Council is still...
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Animal protection does not win votes …
*Pic: Kelly Garbato FLICKR Submission to: the International Policy Team of the CITES Management Authority of Australia in the Department of the...
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Head in the sand …
Why we’ll never see preventative action on sea-level rise … So far Tassie’s coastal communities haven’t suffered from Collaroy-like storm surge damage...
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The Worthiness of Trees – Reflections from an Activist
Quietly the merging light crept within. Dawn awakens. Wafts of floating mist drift silently through the giant fingers of eucalypt. In peace...
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UNLESS … the giant freshwater lobster will disappear from the planet forever …
R. Mawbey’s pic of a giant freshwater crayfish, from Tasmania’s Parks and Wildlife Service, HERE The giant freshwater crayfish habitat RE: Public...
