Tasmanian Times
Economy
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952The Chief Scientist and the Gunns Pulp Mill. Gunns woos Tamar Valley.
With the resignation of Professor Penny Sackett the Chief Scientist with effect Friday 4th March 2011 my attention was drawn to the...
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Zombie Firms
Zombie. Origin Voodoo culture, West Indies, Noun: the body of a dead person given the semblance of life, but mute and will-less,...
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Greens push for PMAA repeal. SEARCH ponders direct action. Giant banner unfurled.
The Tasmanian Greens today confirmed that they will be moving to repeal the controversial Pulp Mill Assessment Act 2007 (PMAA) in this...
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Human Health First – No Pulp Mill
The Tasmanian Public and Environmental Health Network (TPEHN) will not support a pulp mill in Tasmania, Spokesperson for TPEHN, Dr Alison Bleaney...
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Not the cake, Lara, the Bread …
Gunns, once the billion dollar super company of Tasmania, is today on its knees and needing its pulp mill to simply stay...
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Cost of water big sell: $700,000 on spin and marketing
TASMANIA’S three water corporations plan to spend almost three-quarters of a million dollars of public funds on advertising, spin doctors and market...
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Tasmanian Heritage Icon Gets Poked in the Eye
I am writing to express the Lighthouses of Australia Inc disapproval at the recent downgrading of the light at Eddystone Point by...
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Exploiting the possibilities …
Heard this on Radio National’s ‘The National Interest’ yesterday … ‘You know how supermarkets round their prices up, or down, to expunge...
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Global Warming and its nemesis –the humble plastic!
While walking along the streets of Melbourne with a plastic bag of groceries in hand, a couple made a comment on how...
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Taxing our carbon waste dump
One of the key items on Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s agenda is pricing carbon and her new multi-party committee aims to spearhead...
