Tasmanian Times
Economy
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770Live export industry leaves Wilkie on the dock
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has condemned the live animal export industry which this morning effectively withdrew an invitation for...
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Tough times for the Tasmanian Greens
Last week was tough … the new Premier Hodgman struck hard and relegated the three Green MPs to the status of sole-trader...
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Vested interests are undermining our democracy
Image: Thomas Cole, Course of Empire I am very privileged to be able to reply to the Governor-General’s speech. I am especially...
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Road to Utopia …
Sir Thomas More depicted an imaginary Island – Utopia – as enjoying a perfect social, legal and political system. Most Tasmanians however...
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What would be the effect on farmers if there was contamination of the water table … ?
Image from here One of the last projects agreed by the now departed Giddings government was awarding a licence for unconventional oil...
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (6)
Image from here: http://foxgully.wordpress.com/tag/environment/page/3/ The “Respect the Mountain” forum ( here, here, and here ) at the Hobart Town Hall last month...
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World’s Number 1 Herbicide Discovered in US Mothers’ Breast Milk
• Pilot study shows build-up of glyphosate herbicide in Mothers’ bodies • Urine testing shows glyphosate levels over 10 times higher than...
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Macquarie Island declared pest free after 7-year eradication program
The World Heritage-listed Macquarie Island has been declared free of pests after a near seven-year campaign to eradicate it of rats, rabbits...
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Forests: Reality bites for Paul and Will …
• Eye of the storm … Resources Minister Paul Harriss with Premier Will Hodgman. Mr Harris is reported as saying the Liberal...
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Andrew Wilkie: The rebuild is a mess and the previous State Government misled the community
I share new Tasmanian Health Minister Michael Ferguson’s assessment that the situation with the rebuild of the Royal Hobart Hospital is “appalling.”...
