Tasmanian Times
Economy
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816Forestry’s ‘Sustainable Practice’: The Neverending Story
Bearing witness to the immediate impact of Forestry Tasmania’s massive over-allocation of resource( The Report Lab-Lib would rather you did not see...
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Dream on …
Just when you thought the croupier had gone home, Morningstar analyst Peter Warnes was reported in yesterday’s press as saying … “This...
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Monorail: A sad indictment …
The sudden random idea to purchase the Sydney Monorail or somehow hope that it could be gifted to Hobart, is a sad...
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Greens win support for Bass Strait freight scheme
The Tasmanian Greens today welcomed the successful passage through the Lower House of their motion calling for broad consultation on strengthening the...
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Call for pokies plain packaging
The Tasmanian Greens today called for the Treasurer to undertake to investigate the implementation of ‘plain packaging’ for poker machine venues, which...
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Sad neglect of Tasmania’s teeth costing State Health budget
The Tasmanian Greens today urged all state politicians to back a push by the Australian Greens to have dental treatment included in...
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State of the State: What your mother didn’t tell you, graph by graph
Image: J Tasmania — A Cash Flow Analysis Based on a Working Paper commissioned by Ruth Forrest MLC and a presentation to...
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The Future: It’s up to private forests … and a change at FT. Burning Tasmania. Labor hides Report
Progress to date Here’s an update on progress to get a blackwood growers cooperative established under the IGA. A recent trip around...
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Professional Standards Act 2005 – useless
Jim Hacker, Sir Humphrey, Bernard Jim Wilkinson NELSON MLC Jim Wilkinson has successfully moved a motion in the Legislative Council highlighting that...
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The Empty Ocean
I once had a conversation with a marine ecologist working on the Wallace Line. I asked her if she was beyond the...
