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1.1KCoroner & LegalSTATE: MIS post mortem. Forestry job losses
In response to an invitation by the Senate Economics Committee chaired by Sam Dastyari (with members including Nick Xenophon Bill Heffernan and...
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913Coroner & Legal
Paul Harriss Pretence: FT closer to closure
The ministerial statement on the future of Forestry Tasmania today was a de facto announcement of the appointment of an Administrator. Expressions...
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2.0KEconomy
FEA’s Receivers Deloitte has at last found a buyer for FEA’s land and trees
Resources Management Services LLC (RMS) a forestry investment manager from Alabama paid $125.5 million for land belonging to FEA and trees belonging...
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1.1KEconomy
The Surplus Fetish …
The fear of burdening our grandchildren with debt, we are forever being told, is the reason why there is a need to...
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1.1KCoroner & Legal
Things that can’t last … FT fails the test, says Examiner
Things that can’t last forever usually don’t. This morning’s Examiner reported on a leaked email from Forestry Tasmania (FT) Chairman to FT...
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1.0KEconomy
Pulp mill stink spelled the end of Gunns
Pulp mills stink. To convey how badly, in 2007, a former CSIRO scientist, Warwick Raverty, smuggled a sample of the odour, soaked...
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1.1KEconomy
Lapoinya: Has FT found the way?
Image: from the Lapoinya community’s blogspot here Forestry Tasmania’s (FT) controversial small native forest coupe in the Flowerdale river catchment area at...
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1.9KEconomy
Rise and Fall of Gunns: The Grand Folly …
The rise and fall of Gunns A tale that needed telling. Those are the words of Geoffrey Cousins referring to Quentin Beresford’s...
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981Coroner & Legal
FT and the Economic Regulator
The Government’s willingness to breach the spirit of national competition policy by its use of State resources to prop up Forestry Tasmania...
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1.1KEconomy
A breach of competition policy? FLAG …
The Forestry Tasmania scrutiny hearing left no doubt that its survival depends on selling more native forest woodchips at higher prices. Filling...
