Tasmanian Times
Economy
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4.2KIsrael Grants First Golan Heights Oil Drilling licence To Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch
Israel has granted a U.S. company the first licence to explore for oil and gas in the occupied Golan Heights, John Reed...
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How the loggers created the firestorm
“It’s called fuel loading,” said Parker Berrington, a firefighter, clutching an adze hoe amid crackling flames and groaning, collapsing tree branches, one...
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Is it true we live in a society and not an economy?
Discussion and Q&A with economists Graeme Wells and Senator Peter Whish-Wilson and Corporate Governance Lecturer Tom Baxter. About the speakers: Graeme Wells...
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Deserts ‘greening’ from rising CO2
Increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) have helped boost green foliage across the world’s arid regions over the past 30 years through...
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TFA passes
The Tasmanian Greens today welcomed the passage through both Houses of the Tasmanian Parliament the Tasmanian Forest Agreement Act Initial Proposed Reserve...
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Dudded on Durability: How the Members of the Legislative Council are being misled
Dear Legislative Councillors, Nothing would please me more to be able to say that we support this durability report, the Governments response...
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To allow or to disallow, that is the question, Thursday: Progress ‘insufficient’
Today, in the Legislative Council, I gave notice of a motion to accept the Initial Reserve Order under the Tasmanian Forest Agreement....
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Call for an apology for Bass Strait schemes that isolate Tasmania
Peter Brohier, Chairman of the former National Sea Highway and Bass Strait Transport Equality Committee’s, in Hobart today called on the Prime...
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A Tasmanian Houdini …
I made an error in my comments regarding John Gay being the CEO of Gunns at the time of the AGM on...
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We won’t tell farmers how to vote
The federal election is now just a week away and the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association has written to all local candidates...
