Tasmanian Times
Economy
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695Dear Mayor Coad …
Bcc neighbours and interested parties Dear Mayor Coad – I need your assistance please, I have today attempted to understand from Council...
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Fossil Free Protestors Expect Meaningful Negotiations are Imminent
Fossil Free UTAS are ending their occupation of the Vice Chancellor’s Building today, after a marathon two-week sit-in. The protestors believe that...
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Pioneer folk wonder if TasWater’s WorkSafe Tasmania Award is a joke …
On the eve of Pioneer’s third ‘anniversary’ living with lead-contaminated drinking water, TasWater pockets the WorkSafe Tasmania Award (and $5000, TT here:...
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Palm oil, pollution and pyro-politics
*Pic: Figure 1. Borneo, in a non El Nino year: The skies over Putusibau, West Kalimantan, 28 October 2014. Another smokey morning...
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Tarkine Vandalism: More Forestry Untruths Exposed …
For almost half a century Tasmanians have heard little variation to the monotonous theme that woodchipping is merely cleaning up the logging...
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NATION: Love is in the Air … Amnesty, Abyan …
Love is in the Canberra air this week as a sort of truce breaks out for Joe Hockey’s farewell. Magically, the bear...
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NATION, Turnbull: ‘Small L’ Liberal Or Planet-Eating Death Star … ? Amnesty, Abyan
*Pic: Original image: Serious Cat, Flickr Early indications from the Turnbull Government Next week, Malcolm Turnbull will clock up six weeks as...
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Tony Blair’s ‘apology’ gives the game away
Tony Blair’s comments yesterday admitting fault in the invasion of Iraq are proof that the ongoing war, which Australia helped start in...
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Launceston …
Charles Wooley in 60 Minutes mode … I can write with impunity about my old hometown of Launceston in the safe knowledge...
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Germaine Greer and the scourge of ‘no-platforming’
*Pic: Germaine Greer (left) on Q&A with Oz Foreign Minister Julie Bishop … The “no-platforming” campaign against Germaine Greer reflects a deeper...
