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832Sea level rising faster in past 20 years than in entire 20th century. Here comes El Nino …
*Pic: Howrah Beach, Hobart … where high tides are beginning to encroach … A new study has found sea level rise accelerated...
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The Tarkine Coast – A Wildlife Refuge
*Pic: A lizard’s eye … Stretching for around 100 kilometres between West Point and Ahrberg Bay, the windswept coastline of the Tarkine...
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NZ: A programme to poison a nation
Since the mid 1950’s, when New Zealand started aerial poisoning to rid the land of invasive mammals, there has been a steady...
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NATION: Where there’s smoke there’s Joe (and Tony)
*Pic: Where there’s smoke there’s Joe … Treasurer Joe Hockey and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann share a convivial cigar before B1 …...
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Triabunna: Despite the autumn colour, spring (is) in the air …
*Pics: Reorder installations … Inside Spring Bay Mill, dirty jackets hang on hooks as if their owners had just finished a shift...
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Deceptions and such pranks are fun though …
Image from here I’m a fairly trusting bloke but only after I’ve exhausted all the possibilities of chicanery, deception and perfidy, commonly...
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Knowledge is power …
• Knowledge is power Once the motto of one of my old State schools, and it shows the level of schooling at...
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After Shorten’s shabby Milne send-off, can Labor’s Greens resentment end?
Bill Shorten’s response to Christine Milne’s resignation was pretty shabby, but it was also revelatory. After all this time, the ALP –...
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Macquarie chief Nicholas Moore’s pay soars to $16.5m
Meanwhile … a little history … Macquarie chief Nicholas Moore’s pay soars to $16.5m Joyce Moullakis – afr.com 08 May 2015 Macquarie...
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Paraguay postscripts
There are always sequels to the stories of our soldiers killed at Gallipoli, as there are for the many who died on...
