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901Red alert: Experts warn of dire health impacts from climate change
*Pic: Course of Empire: Thomas Cole in the years 1833-36 Leading doctors have today launched a publication describing the catastrophic consequences a...
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We serfs, indeed, have a new feudal landlord …
Kleptocracy, Anchorage, New Forests > New Potato … The Receiver / Liquidator Kleptocracy Yes, Tim Thorne ( Comments HERE ), this Receiver/Liquidator...
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A Lake Geeves Walking Track: More invasions into our Sacrosanct Wilderness …
The remote and scrubby Lake Geeves … A dry shoe walk to the wild and remote Lake Geeves … So it seems...
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Burning our identity: a failure of collective consciousness?
On Wednesday, 2nd March a public meeting convened by wilderness photographer Rob Blakers and others, to discuss the recent fires in fragile...
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Stopping attacks on gay people is not an attack on freedom
In a recent interview with The Australian newspaper, former Prime Minister John Howard argued that people these days are “too scared to...
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The right to protest destruction of local environment
*Pic: The moment of conservation legend Bob Brown’s arrest at Lapoinya … Dear Editor, Pete Hay’s brilliant opinion piece (The Mercury, Home...
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Dear Stakeholder: The burns have started …
*Pics: Southern forests burning. Taken this afternoon (Monday) from near Cygnet by Pat Synge. Southern Forests from David Nuttall … from the...
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Author Richard Flanagan on Syria’s great exodus
Richard bears witness to the Syrian refugee crisis after a visit to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, near the Syrian border. In February this...
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Reform or die
Tasmania’s Legislative Council must reform or die! Its power to reject budgets and revenue bills is an anachronistic hangover from the 19th...
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Gutwein and the Huon: Tough talk, or will he squib it?
Mike Wilson’s ad in the Huon News Huon Valley Guessing Games Time passes, and the calls keep coming: “What’s happening with the...
