Tasmanian Times
Economy
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1.0KTest-Tube trees
Serious design fault discovered in clonal tree plantations … Plantation e.nitens and e.globulus (bluegum) trees grown in Tasmania are highly developed ‘synthetic’...
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Skin in The Game …
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Tasmania’s whole-of-government LGBTI leadership
Tasmania has become a global case-study on building specific capability across government. From a total ban on discussing LGBTI issues, it’s become...
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How the law protects serial rapists and organised criminals
Evan Whitton says the rule against similar facts has betrayed victims of repeat offenders – organised criminals, serial rapists etc – since...
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Abbott: the slathering junkyard dog …
*Pic: Peta Credlin adorns The Age’s Good Weekend mag … Like a fart in a pickle barrel the Federal Coalition reverberated from...
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Brisbane Baroque is the reinvention of a highly successful music festival …
*Pic: of Leo Schofield. In so many respects, it was the perfect formula: a week of Baroque music in the colonial splendour...
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NATION: UK pledge to phase out coal a wake up call for blinded Liberals, Nationals & Labor
*Pic: Bob Burton’s pic of coal in the Fingal Valley … Australian Greens Leader Christine Milne says the UK cross party agreement...
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PM’s infrastructure plan failing growth and cost-benefit goals
The OECD’s Going for Growth report released this week is a good reminder of why Tony Abbott wants to be remembered as...
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Lapoinya: It just makes no sense …
*Pic: Lapoinya forest manfern … DR CON RHEE … The Lapoinya 68-hectare coupe is one of the last pieces of undisturbed wet...
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Children in detention exposed to danger, Human Rights Commission finds
More than 300 children committed or threatened self-harm in a 15-month period in Australian immigration detention, 30 reported sexual assault, nearly 30...
