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1.5KArticleCable Car Gets The Go-Ahead
The Minister for Wilderness Tours today announced an exciting development which will take the Tasmanian visitor experience to the next level. At...
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2.6KAdventure and Wilderness
Libs’ Plan for Helipad at Lake Malbena will Affect Jobs
Hardly anyone disputes that wilderness has value. But people disagree as to what constitutes wilderness, and they disagree on how to measure...
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1.1KEconomyOverview of poll results by John Hewson
*Pic: Image from here Proposition: The recent US corporate tax cuts will have no impact on investments in and capital flows into...
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1.0KEconomy
The Global Growth Slump: Causes & Consequences
*Pic: Dr John Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. At the Giblin Lecture earlier...
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1.3KEconomy
Do not miss the Giblin Lecture …
First published June 26 The Global Growth Slump: Causes and Consequences … Download Flyer … 2017_Giblin_Lecture_Flyer.pdf *Associate Professor Graeme Wells (UTAS) was...
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1.2KEconomy
Mining the last Old-Growth …
*Pic: Logging at Catamaran. Picture: Daniel Haley First published June 10 Some comments on my earlier article entitled The Forestry Insanity (...
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1.9KEconomy
The Forestry Insanity …
*Pic: The way we were … Picture (in selective logging days of the 1950s) of a log truck bearing an enormous trunk...
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980Economy
Don’t Miss … Three upcoming Economic Society of Tasmania events …
Three flyers for our program of upcoming events – the next is this Wednesday (30 September) and features Nils Axel Braathen, Principal...
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1.1KEconomy
PM’s infrastructure plan failing growth and cost-benefit goals
The OECD’s Going for Growth report released this week is a good reminder of why Tony Abbott wants to be remembered as...
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1.1KEconomy
Asset recycling no dream for Hockey, but efficiency boost likely
The federal government’s A$5 billion asset recycling initiative, part of Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s claim to be the “infrastructure prime minister”, has...
