Tasmanian Times
Economy
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794Party politics in danger of becoming a tyranny of a minority
IT is in the interests of democracy to have free or conscience-voting on moral issues such as same-sex marriage. In Westminster parliaments,...
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Goodbye Tuvalu
*Pic: Under threat … Funafutu Atol, Tuvalu Along with at least 36 other Small Island States to be affected by anthropogenic global...
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Spain’s communist model village
Marinaleda, in impoverished Andalusia, used to suffer terrible hardships. Led by a charismatic mayor, the village declared itself a communist utopia and...
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Creating a Future that Works
As an advanced industrial nation, Australia could now have a society with real full-employment and free of poverty. Why have we failed...
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Strings attached: Julian Burnside commissions Tony Abbott-inspired composition
Barrister and human rights advocate, Julian Burnside QC, has commissioned composer Lyle Chan to create a piece of music, “Wind Farm Music...
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Attorney-General Vanessa Goodwin …
Attorney-General Vanessa Goodwin: Please … our children need our help to get harsher sentencing for pedophiles … Hello my name is Anne,...
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Weed Whackers
Monsanto’s lucrative war against invasive species On a Friday evening in January, a thousand people at the annual California Native Plant Society...
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Seafloor digi map: Graveyards revealed in very firsts digital map of seafloor
A team of researchers in Australia has mapped our planet’s seafloor in unprecedented detail with the resulting digital map showing an ocean-less...
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Carbon accounting & FT profitability
As Forestry Tasmania (FT) contemplates its future, a future free of government subsidies, its rolling 3 year production plan for native forest...
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Ta Ann, Forestry Tasmania and the loss-making Take-or-Pay Contracts
*Pic: Heart of Darkness? Matt ( [email protected] , www.matthewnewton.com.au ) Newton’s aerial shot of Ta Ann Southwood, Huon Valley, taken just last...
