Tasmanian Times
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Ralphs Bay: Voter backlash awaits
In the likely event the Lennon Cabinet meets today to decide whether to endorse or reject Tasmania’s first canal housing plan, its...
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Forestry’s jobs-offshore strategy
THOUSANDS of tonnes of eucalypt logs piled on Hobart’s wharf for export represent wasted job growth opportunities for the timber industry. There...
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Crisis? Rehash the past
Using a smear campaign against conservationists is a transparent attempt to pass the buck. We are witnessing the usual industry and government...
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Your Say: Highly offensive
Dear Senator Macdonald, I found your media release referring to people who are genuinely concerned about the consequencess of industrial clearfell conversion...
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Chips too dear: Price blamed for slump
TASMANIAN woodchips are becoming too expensive for the Japanese paper industry to buy, Australia’s leading forest products economist has warned. Robert Eastment,...
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Your Say
Increasingly research is showing us that previously documented (albeit the research to produce the documentation was “limited”) safe pesticides are anything but...
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Big Brother … and the pulp mill
BEFORE reality TV, George Orwell coined the phrase ‘Big Brother’ in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, first published in 1948. Nineteen Eighty-Four is...
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Gunns20 writ ‘unintelligible’
The ABC, 12.24pm: Court strikes blow to Gunns compo claim And, The ABC, 4.41pm: Gunns vows to proceed with lawsuit And, Brown’s...
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Hello Mont
WELL-KNOWN Hobart journalist and communications specialist Bruce Montgomery has resigned suddenly from the Forests and Forest Industry Council, claiming his efforts to...
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Public forest locked up
SOS members were shocked and outraged to be informed this week that Forestry Tasmania has extended the deadline for the exclusion zone...
