Tasmanian Times
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Tassie’s GM-free promise
Michelle Paine Mercury TASMANIA’S ban on genetically modified crops has been extended for another five years to 2014. Primary Industries and Water...
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Bartlett congratulated on pulp mill stance
Geoff Law Mr Law said that the state government has held the line in the sand with respect to the pipeline and...
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Spraying plantations
Alice Please investigate why Gunns can spray known cancer causing herbicides right up to the Rivers, Creeks, Springs and dams of local...
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How about Mercury North?
Sven Wiener I think The Mercury’s coverage of the pulp mill issue and various state government scandals has been excellent. Many northeast...
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Armistice Day: The egregious exclusion of Tasmania’s military nurses
Peter Henning Inadvertently, I think, the supplement also revealed what we as a society have chosen not to memorialize in the past...
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Bretton Woods: A failure timeline
Brenda Rosser “Multinational enterprises in the ordinary course of operations dispose of vast quantities of money across international exchanges….Most of that flow...
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What about Tasmania!
READERS will recall that from time to time I have written paragraphs to express the point I want to communicate. The piece...
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970Holding the line
Geoff Law “The line represented the 73% of Tasmanians who want Premier David Bartlett to end all government involvement in the proposed...
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New blow to Gunns
Nick Clark Mercury GUNNS Limited has suffered another blow to its plans for a $2.2 billion pulp mill. The company has announced...
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Roadkill carnage
Michelle Paine Mercury NEARLY 300,000 animals are killed on Tasmanian roads every year. Among them, 4000 Tasmanian devils — about 5 per...
