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1.2KEconomyTasmania is run by unrepentant idiots. TAI damns forestry industry …
Perception Of The Tasmanian Forest Industry Homunculus (def: A miniature, fully-formed individual). Satire: Karl. If ever confirmation was needed we are governed...
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2.0KEconomy
The New Forest Way?
Almost the entire Tasmanian hardwood plantation estate of 193,000 hectares owned privately is on the market, along with much of the underlying...
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1.0KCoroner & Legal
Federal Hotels: End of a chapter
Federal Hotels’ 2012/13 financials confirm its cash-flow struggles highlighted the previous year have continued and will only be resolved by a selloff...
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1.1KEconomy
Hobart Airport: A shameful public policy
The Hobart Airport consortium (TGC) has survived another year, avoiding looming disaster by injecting more equity and offloading a sizable chunk of...
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1.1KEconomy
Hydro Tasmania: The fall guy?
Imagine a company taking over another company with a book value of $89 million ($346 million worth of assets less $257 million...
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945Economy
The Debt Fallacy
It’s not only refugees who are about to swamp us but also governments debt. The need to return the federal budget to...
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1.5KEconomy
Frank Nicklason on John Gay: I have a bad case of indigestion
Dear Editor, I have a bad case of indigestion. Let me explain. Former Gunns Chairman and CEO, Mr John Gay, has been...
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914Economy
A bail-out of a badly managed private consortium
The election ritual certainly reinforces a belief in cargo cultism. On his latest flying visit to Hobart Tony Abbott promised $38 million...
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1.8KEconomy
The false dichotomy of clearfell or reserve must be abandoned. Vica Bayley on free speech.
German forest scientist, Professor Andreas Rothe, has injected some much needed rationality and clarity of vision into discussions regarding the future of...
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1.1KCoroner & Legal
MIS class action makes slow progress
What did directors know and when did they know is the question at the core of class actions by grower investors against...
