Tasmanian Times
Economy
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875Ecuador’s Amazon drilling pledge still to take shape
Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park is one of the most biodiverse areas in the world, containing as many tree species as the US...
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PAINTED AS LOBSTER ACTIVIST HIGHLIGHT CRUELTY OF LIVE EXPORT INDUSTRY
Let Lobsters Live – Ban Live Export for Good! An activist with Against Animal Cruelty Tasmania (AACT) will be wearing nothing but...
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Canberra backs forests peace deal. No compo
THE Gillard government has backed the pioneering Tasmanian forests peace pact, ensuring a blueprint to end most native forest logging can be...
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Infrastructure Investment and Productivity
Text and accompanying slides of Saul Eslake’s talk to the Tasmanian Branch of the Economics Society’s Annual Economic Forum held in Hobart,...
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Indigenous burn control a myth: study
New research puts paid to the belief that Aboriginal people used fire on a large scale to control vegetation across Australia. The...
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Huon Valley Guessing Games: Smoke and mirrors
Something pricked someone’s conscience before the November 10 meeting of Huon Valley Council — it might even have been Tasmanian Times’ ‘Trial...
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Delusions, Gutwein and Forestry
Reading transcripts of Government Business Scrutiny Hearings can be boring. But it can also be revealing. Sometimes it’s the questions. Other times...
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Bartlett’s World of Forestry Fantasy
The day after an “anti-pulp mill meeting” in Launceston, noteworthy for Warwick Raverty’s suggestion that Gunns should consider using compensation money (for...
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Greens warn. Gunns threatens. Premier Promises
FOREST PRINCIPLES PROCESS MUST NOT BE PRE-EMPTED Implement Agreed Moratorium Call Nick McKim MP Greens Leader The Tasmanian Greens today reiterated that...
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Can the World Survive China? (Part 2)
The larger idea is to build a more sustainable economy, or what Chinese leaders have called a balanced and harmonious society. In...
