Tasmanian Times
Economy
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1.3KConnorville reaps $250,000 for letting its trees remain
Seventh generation Connorville Station owner Roderic O’Connor (right) with workman Gary McGrath and property overseer Adrian Carpenter. Image HERE A Northern Midlands...
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The only game in town. The Age: The policy failures
These news items are a bit old now but I wonder if they are indicative of what 2012 may bring. I will...
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MIS growers felled again
What happens to MIS Growers’ plantations once the Responsible Entity supposedly looking after the tree crops runs into financial difficulties? What has...
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How the government failed animals in live export
Suzanne Cass, from Live Export Shame Tasmania, says that the Gillard government continues to abjectly fail animals in the live export trade....
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Ancanthe … all that will be lost
Ancanthe: Mt Wellington on the skyline Brushy Creek Valley It is to be hoped that David Mackenzie Crean has some historical blood...
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Forestry: A Modus Operandi
It seems that with the issue of Forestry, no-one has really put their finger on the problem. Neither Forestry themselves, the government,...
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The Tale of Two Forests
It was late evening and there was no one else on the track. A thick, misty drizzle drifted through the tree-tops, obscuring...
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FT, and Foxgloves, and the WHA
Natural Resource Management (NRM) Weed Survey I was asked in late October 2011, as a neighbour to a World Heritage Area (WHA),...
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1691 objections to new property valuations
TASMANIA’S valuer-general received 1691 objections in response to its latest cycle of 90,000 property valuations carried out in 2010. The valuations underpin...
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Two cases of Big Oil in South America
An Ecuadorean appeals court has upheld a ruling that Chevron should pay damages totalling $18.2bn (£11.5bn) over Amazon oil pollution. Chevron said...
