Tasmanian Times
Economy
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760Shelving ETS the wrong call, says Rudd, as Labor slumps
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd says he made the wrong decision when he shelved the Government’s emissions trading scheme last year. Mr...
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Water Meters: Damning Review. Freeman’s Serve
Hobart City Council Alderman Jeff Briscoe today released the independent review prepared for HCC of the economic benefits of Southern Water’s roll...
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Greg responds to Richard …yet again
It was pleasing to see Greg L’Estrange put pen to paper by replying (HERE) to Richard Flanagan (HERE) rather than rely on...
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Plant disease raises questions on modified crops
Bouncing down a dirt road a couple of summers ago, past a gentle patchwork of barnyards and soybean fields in central Iowa,...
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Pull your weight, says Colin Barnett
West Australian Premier Colin Barnett has called on Tasmania to either stop rejecting development or stop putting its hand out to take...
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The Great Disruption
The Great Disruption by Paul Gilding Bloomsbury 2011 A work on climate change by a former head of Greenpeace International (1992-1994) will...
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Government asked to investigate new pesticide link to bee decline. Scientists get pushy
The Government is being asked to investigate a possible link between a new generation of pesticides and the decline of honey bees....
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Devonshire teas and trees. The Last Century Dinosaur
Three items in the news media recently shine the light on why the forest industry in Australia, including Tasmania, is in such...
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The Tarkine’s guard is down, let’s get it back
The emergency heritage listing granted to the Tarkine by the federal Government on the back of a road proposed through the Tarkines...
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Oil spill catastrophe highlights Tassie dangers
NEWS of environmental catastrophe in Japan, has eclipsed another pollution event on the other side of the world that has implications for...
