Tasmanian Times
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Vigilantes
Peg Putt MR The Tasmanian Greens today called on forestry industry leaders to publicly condemn any use of violence against forest protesters,...
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Pulp mill will cost Tasmania $300m
Matthew Denholm Imre Sulusinszky The Australian A NEW report concludes the economic benefits of the Gunns Tasmanian pulp mill have been vastly...
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We need to act NOW
Dr Alison Bleaney Another link between persistent organic pollutants (POPs) including some pesticides, and disease – Type 2 diabetes – is detailed...
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Wonderland to Wasteland
David Obendorf Obtaining reliable and incontestable evidence of thyalcine presence & establishment within any Tasmanian habitat (at locations historically known to be...
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All about POPs
Dr David Obendorf The chemists also measured PBDEs in 700 samples of farmed and wild salmon from around the world (all except...
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Privatisation of water
John Biggs So no thank you, Damon Thomas, we do not want our water in Tasmania privatised. IN A RECENT article Damon...
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A definition of industry
Richard Butler When I am found by the RSPCA to have starved horses or dogs or mistreated them – I can be...
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Clean, green, pristine …
David Obendorf The detection of polybrominated biphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in the body fat of Tasmanian devils should be yet another prompt to...
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Those fire retardants
Christopher Purcell Is it true that these fire-retardants are used as wetting/binding agents for the application of the pesticides? Read more, Comment...
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Poison Island (2)
David Obendorf Timeline of the toxicology study in Tasmanian devils A range of POPs including organo-chlorines, PCBs, furans and dioxins have already...
