Tasmanian Times
Economy
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1.1KMinister Garrett should be sacked – Lessons for the pulp mill
As we now know, the Rudd governments home insulation program has been an unmitigated disaster resulting in 4 deaths, 120 house fires...
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Parliament will have to reform itself
“It is harder to get people to think themselves into a new way of acting than it is to get them to...
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A new Tasmania … right the wrongs first
Our Tasmanian future depends first on righting wrongs and not in the creation of new policy directions until these wrongs can be...
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World grabs more and more toilet paper
24 April 2010 Magazine issue 2757 Next time you reach for the toilet roll, consider this: 60 million rolls of toilet paper...
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Forestry smoke: This is outrageous and indefensible
Dioxins are some of the most toxic chemicals known to man. Dioxins are produced whenever organic substances (anything containing carbon) are burned...
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The Bee All and End All – Tasmanian Bees at Risk
Dead bees. Does it really matter? Yes it does! In Tasmania, bees are estimated to provide a value of $188 million annually,...
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Academic freedom under attack from foresters institute
When a voluntary media spokesperson for the Institute of Foresters of Australia calls for the silencing of critics, alarm bells should ring....
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Eden feels the heat over wood-fired power plant
EDEN, on the state’s south coast, is set to be the first Australian town to be powered by a wood-fired electricity plant,...
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A Narrative – The Unfolding of the Global Financial Crisis. Part 1 (Update 3)
In 1980 a series of large apparently engineered [1] increases in the global price of oil [2] led to the destabilisation of...
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FAO and WWF: birds of a feather promote “planted forests” together
Published by World Rainforest Movement – Monthly Bulletin – Issue 153 – April 2010 According to the FAO, halting deforestation is neither...
