Tasmanian Times
Knowledge
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1.1KGilding the lily
A heritage issue is back in the news focus (although, in fact, it hasn’t been away too long). It’s the planned building...
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Llewellyn must answer to this catastrophe
When I first bought my house in Rosebery I was so excited to have my very first home. I loved the wild...
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Bees, bats & frogs dying off in droves. Diabetes trigger?
Five great extinction events have reshaped earth in cataclysmic ways in the past 439 million years, each wiping out between half and...
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Canberra’s Greenwash proves Abbott-forming
It’s enough to make you clasp your skull to stop your head exploding. Kevin Rudd, elected with an environmental mandate on climate...
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New Year, same old pulp mill
Once featured weekly on front pages across Australia, Gunns’ Tamar Valley Pulp Mill in Tasmania has almost disappeared from view. The company...
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2007 Retrospective: The wood supply doubts
Having observed the pulp mill debate in the media and watched it approach its climax this week I am concerned that a...
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The test-tube trees
Paper manufacturers and environmentalists seem to be reliving Robert Frost’s age-old dilemma caused by two roads diverging in the woods. Proponents of...
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Science must end climate confusion
Climate scientists need to take more responsibility about how their work is presented to the public, suggests the Met Office’s Richard Betts....
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Christmas present for beekeepers
Since the last press release we have been involved in negotiations between the Tasmanian Beekeepers Association and Forestry Tasmania, for the creation...
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Rosebery: Problem? What problem?
Tasmania’s Department of Health has defended a decision not to test animals for heavy metal poisoning in the west coast town of...
