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• Environment

  Biofuel babble

  phill Parsons The geniuses at the major car companies have just released new lines of gas guzzlers so that Australian families living...

• National

  Howard, Indonesia, Papua

  phill Parsons And why are we taking these extraordinary steps. Because our first line of defence against refugees is playing its trump...

• Environment

  The windfarm threat

  By phill Parsons Windfarms have not made that species endangered, they were already so when large-scale construction of windfarms started Read more...

• Environment

  Heads in the sand

  NO doubt about it, heads are buried in the sand over the impact of a changed climate. Mediterranean climate for Tasmania trumpets...

• Article

  What I fear, hope for, in 2006

  RIGHTLY, we have been memorializing the Boxing Day 2004 seismic sea wave with its hundreds of thousands of deaths in a short...

• Article

  Climate of fear

  I HAVE to agree with Dr Bonham that the rarity of four extreme weather events does make it difficult to draw conclusions,...

• Article

  The climate crisis

  DEFERRING action, and thus the benefits of action, the State of Tasmania has aligned with the Federal Government’s head in the sand...

• Environment

  The runaway train

  As the people of the Kimberley region receive the first rains of the wet 2 weeks early some of us further south...

• Article

  Freeze frame

  THE fruits of global warming The Tasmanian Fire Commission’s prediction of an early start to the fire season have some parallels in...

• Article

  Water, water … nowhere

  Melbourne Water’s operations manager, John Woodland, says it would take seven or eight years of average rain to refill the Thomson dam,...