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Paradise Regained?

Writing in The Guardian (Jan 1), Penny Green finds Nicholas Shakespeare’s investigation into settlers In Tasmania produces an interesting result … Penny...

Tsunami updates

A satellite photo animation of the tsunami impact on the Banda Aceh shore in Indonesia has been distributed by Digital Globe. To...

Tasmania

I was going to head up the dreamlike Gordon River, rainforest all round me, with old Denny Hamill on his fishing boat,...

Gunns writ is an attack on democracy

Greg Barns seeks to defend Gunns, the Tasmanian timber and woodchip conglomerate, from charges that it is stifling free speech by suing...

Leadership by the third wether from the rear

Well, what’s been happening? I write a letter regarding intimidation by the forest industry, (See letters) leave the state for six days...

Save our Sisters

We have word today that the Forest Practice Plan for the logging of Coupe NI114A is going to be certified “within the...

Not a peep

Whiff of the whisperer?

Is there a whiff of the whispering bulldozer, the Graymeister, in all of this? Or, possibly a smokescreen, to shield us from...

I’ve had a gutful of this!

I’ve had a gutful of this! For some time now I’ve sat by and passively watched Gunns Ltd rape my home. I’ve...

“This is not about free speech”

Writing in The Age Greg Barns says the court action by Gunns is not about silencing protesters. Despite the passionate rhetoric of...