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794EnvironmentDeath of a blackwood
Cygnet people who care about the image of their township were sort of resigned to the idea that the big blackwood at...
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733Politics
‘Minor’ eruption gets major
“I’m determined to change the culture of the council,” Huon Valley Council general manager Glenn Doyle told me nearly a year ago....
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860Environment
Public loss, private gain?
THE JOKE that is the Huon Valley Council’s “consultation and communications strategy” got sicker at its June meeting, when management acknowledged that...
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959Coroner & Legal
Owzat!
The hubris of the man! If John Winston Howard really wants to get back on the world stage, I suggest he does...
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845Economy
A watery mirage
It’s jiggery-pokery as usual in the Huon Valley. Suddenly, but back to front, Southern Water is starting to construct its seriously flawed...
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813Politics
Don’t laugh. This is serious …
THE HUON VALLEY Council’s next open meeting is its budget session tomorrow (June 23), and public gallery regulars are hoping — following...
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795Economy
Good riddance, John Gay
From my home on the east side of the Huon, I look across to a horizon of Hartz Mountains peaks. Between the...
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782Economy
Asbestos silence
On February 26, 2009, in a dawn raid, the Huon Valley Council staged a lightning demolition of Franklin’s iconic mid-20th century football...
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837Coroner & Legal
The buck stops with the Mayor
HUON VALLEY Council has lost $3 million of the public money it manages in the interests of the people of its municipality....
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831Environment
Heritage canal under siege
Further evidence that the Tasmanian Heritage Council is a toothless weapon in the fight to protect our historic jewels landed in my...
