Tasmanian Times
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4.1KAll about Tassie’s endemic birds
• *Pic: BBC: Cockatoo identified in 13th Century European book Line drawing of yellow wattlebirds: John Gould The documentary David Attenborough’s Tasmania...
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Climate catastrophe …
37 years ago scientists were predicting what is happening now … Sources … https://thinkprogress.org/30-years-after-a-brave-scientist-warned-us-about-global-warming-deniers-run-america-20fc66beb133/ https://atmos.washington.edu/~davidc/ATMS211/articles_optional/Hansen81_CO2_Impact.pdf
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‘Brown condemns political violence’
Former Greens Leader Bob Brown says that vandalism on Braddon Greens candidate Jarrod Edwards’ car on Friday night should lead to an...
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Mercury Talking Point: ‘Questions on election transparency a matter of democracy’
ACCOUNTABILITY and transparency are in short supply when it comes to politics in Tasmania. The March State election, which was bought by...
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Long Live our gracious Aunty …
First published June 21 I am far too old not to feel a shiver of time-worn apprehension snake down my spine when...
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A Tourism Apocalypse
*Pic: The vista greeting tourists … First published June 22 What a delightful scene for tourists wishing to visit the epic sites...
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Damn, dash, bother … !
Damn, dash, bother! Couldn’t plunge into the icy Derwent this year … ’cause I’d forgotten I had to register for The Solstice...
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Trump pisses on the Statue of Liberty …
*Cartoon: Martyn Turner, used with permission: https://www.facebook.com/martynturnercartoons/ . http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/martyn-turner
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‘I’m nearly 100, I saw 1945 refugee crisis firsthand. I need people to listen to my warning. Vid’
I cannot sit back in good conscience while the world my generation built is left to turn feral in the hands of...
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‘Cable car proponents threaten legal action over protest website’
*Pic: ROB WALLS. Richard Flanagan’s memorable speech to an anti-cable car rally in Cascade Park a month ago. The speech was before...
