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• Economy

  We need a better understanding

  Alex Wadsley … I support your call … “We need to get a better understanding of how the State’s finances work and...

• Economy

  A better way forward

  John Lawrence THIRTEEN months away from a crucial State election, and the Messiah is yet to appear. Dominated by forestry and Tarkine...

• Environment

  What Forestry says

  Forestry Tasmania The Upper Florentine Valley, in Tasmania’s south, is an area well-recognised for its landscape and old growth forest values. No...

• Economy

  Great Southern heads further south

  John Lawrence When GSL originally announced their intention to purchase investors’ interests in the 6 tree projects only 9 months figures for...

• Environment

  Special Treatment for Plantation Growers

  Earlier on Tasmanian Times (John Hawkins on the 7th January 2009, Comment 23) in a note titled “Does Gunns pay rates” again...

• Article

  MIS debacle hurts us all

  Weekly Times Opinion THE Federal Government has forgone more than $6 billion in tax revenue to prop up managed investment schemes that...

• Economy

  Race to the bottom

  John Lawrence If one were to strip away the subsidies ‘paid’ to Gunns via wood supply arrangements with Forestry Tas , Gunns...

• Economy

  Collapse of MIS

  John Lawrence Leonie Wood has written another revealing episode in The Age http://business.theage.com.au/business/court-orders-environinvest-solvency-check-20081107-5k6z.html concerning the collapse of Environinvest a MIS company which...

• Economy

  CFMEU – Acting for Members or for Forest Companies?

  John Lawrence And Mr O’Connor and his union share a lot of the blame for this. The interests of his members wasn’t...

• Economy

  MIS scheme goes belly-up

  Leonie Wood The Age Of enormous concern to regulators, investigators and the Victorian Supreme Court is $77 million of funds at risk,...