Tasmanian Times
Economy
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819It is what we have always done best
The economics teacher in me would like to remind you of the importance of “horizontal fiscal equalisation”. Now, before you get too...
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Libs and Leg Co must rule out blocking state budget. Wilkie plan backed by Greens
The Tasmanian Greens Leader Nick McKim MP today called on the Liberal Party and Legislative Council to rule out any attempt to...
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Ban health and climate-hazard forest burns. Four protest arrests
Pic: Matt Newton, http://www.matthewnewton.com.au/ Image here Huon Valley Environment Centre has today launched a campaign with a protest flare on Hobart’s Parliament...
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Greens cry wolf on Integrity Commission
Kim Booth has rightly questioned the Integrity Commissions inability to compel witness testimony and also states that; ‘It’s self evident that the...
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Last Roll of the Gunns’ Dice … as Pulp World burns
GUNNS has told investors to disregard financial information it has provided in recent months about the Bell Bay pulp mill. Rather, it...
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Trials aim to counter spraydrift. Dangers of woodsmoke
ONGOING spray drift complaints throughout South Australia have led to farmers being urged to use very coarse and extremely coarse droplets in...
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Book sales have fallen off a cliff, but literature’s future is bright online
Tasmanian literary and cultural journal Island will launch its latest issue Island 128: Digitalism at 6pm Wednesday 2 May at Waterside Pavilion,...
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On your bike, Lara
The Labor-Green government can start making savings next month if it invests appropriately in bicycle facilities such as bike lanes and cycleways...
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What Tasmania does best …
“The CommSec State of the States report (CommSec home here, and Mercury report here) serves to underline how critical it is for...
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Observer Tree exposes baby devils in area threatened by logging
Pic: Alan Lesheim Miranda Gibson, Tasmania’s long-time treesitter in The Observer Tree (Miranda Gibson breaks Tasmanian tree-sitting record …) is today releasing...
