Tasmanian Times
Economy
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895Pulp Friction – Fact not Fiction
In 2009, at the height of a passionate public debate on the merits or otherwise of a giant pulp-mill proposed for the...
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952
South Vicmania? North Tastoria? Why merging three Australian states is a bad idea
Recent chatter about a potential administrative merger between Tasmania and Victoria and including South Australia looks like a solution in search of...
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No basket-case: Tasmania on the bumpy road to economic sustainability
Is Tasmania at a tipping point? Over the next two weeks The Conversation, in conjunction with Griffith REVIEW and the University of...
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901
Guitar wood supplier predicts sound future
Tasmanian tonewood merchant Robert MacMillan has been in the media lately telling a good news story about the forest industry – a...
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801
Vandemonian Dreaming
Image: ‘Clydes Island’, an oil painting by Kim Peart, completed on Sunday 28th April 1996 in one of the old shops in...
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756
Top five regrets of the dying
A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of the dying, and among the top ones is ‘I wish I hadn’t worked...
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751
Same sex please, we’re British
Same sex please, we’re British. Britannia Rules! Let’s fly the same sex Union Jack in solidarity! Britain’s Conservative Government passes a Bill...
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Earnest Thoughtful Men Who Have Discovered The Ultimate Technology
In four decades of debating energy issues I can’t avoid noticing one stand-out sociological phenomenon – for every possible energy source you...
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830
A Deeper Level of Denial
The denial of science can be seen among creationists, where belief is more valid than truth. In a similar way, the denial...
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Rising risk prices out new coal-fired plants: report
Australia is unlikely to build new baseload power stations burning coal because of tumbling prices for renewable energy and the rising cost...
