Economy

Eschew the imagination of a Wettex and save the pulp mill

A little of the passion and understanding of the need to preserve the past that is demonstrated in the story above (Leo...

Abbott’s angry people … and How to create jobs

“Some might call the predicted thousands of trucks descending on Canberra ending up as hundreds (ABC, 21/8/11) a ‘flop’, but these Australians...

I agree with Erich Abetz

I think for once I agree with that Green and now Gunns hater Erich Abetz, the dear but simple Hodgman and the...

The crisis of the global economy. Was it a planned disintegration?

“The biggest propaganda story this decade is the fiction of the Japanese and now Chinese workers are thrifty folks who want to...

The EV-hater’s guide to hating electric cars

Electric vehicles (EVs) are a sales flop and a dismal failure. Or so I was told this week — and last week...

Before … After … Anyone see specialist timber? Trees as jet fuel!

The people tell Gunns Time’s Up!

At mid-day today a determined crowd gathered at Gunns’ Long Reach mill site north of Launceston to peacefully protest the Tasmanian community’s...

Forced to change … FIAT, Libs outrageous, says Booth. Brown lashes Hodgman

There is a massive re-rating of native forest going on, even as world resolve to tackle climate change crumbles. Deforestation accounts for...

All they, like sheep, have gone astray …

A response to comments 43 and 46, on: In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is King Yes, Ms Mills...

Southern Water savaged … and no response to Susan of Howrah

The front page of The Mercury today details some of the failings of Southern Water (Article linked Below) … among the trio...