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  Whales and hypocrisy

  Only a few days ago we were confronted with the possibility of Japan again becoming a pariah to Australians, their push to...

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  Mandatory reading

  Brown [Greens Tasmania] will make a gesture by introducing further amendments to the changes flagged by Howard in regard to mandatory detention....

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  The Precautionary Principle

  THE precautionary principle … Water Minister Kons failed to show it if he drank a glass of Atrazine contaminated water when concern...

• Environment

  Recherche …

  DO I believe my ears. No emergency listing for Recherche Bay but a rush to save high country grazing in Victoria. Am...

• Forestry

  The bipartisan stone wall

  We have arrived at a point similar to the one in 1997 when the regional Forest Agreement between Howard and the then...

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  Ripping off the goods of nature

  Meander Valley Council recently voted 6-2 to not support heritage listing for the Great Western Tiers. Whilst I was not privy to...

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  Governors’ wisdom

  How time flies. Only a few months ago Tasmania’s former Governor, Richard Butler, came under attack for his behaviour as the Vice...

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  Getting off the gas

  What a difference a day or two makes. Having just written of the wasteful heating of water directly by electricity, what news...

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  BOAKYAG

  Like the question of a woman’s right to abortion we have the return of other old conservative chestnuts to the surface for...

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  Streams of darkness

  A tin of pineapple jam, an onion and a tot of rum. Ahh, breakfast. Growing up with several then national icons within...