Tasmanian Times
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1.1KNATION: Probe needed into $4b meltdown of failed forestry schemes
I FIRST called for a Royal Commission into misconduct in the financial sector in June, 2014, when I sat on the Senate...
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STATE, Mutual Valley: Logging is scheduled to commence today …
*Pic: The couple in question … Logging is scheduled to commence today, Monday, April 18, at Mutual Valley forest area CC104B. This...
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Senate Inquiry report calls on state and federal government(s) to act on scourge of marine plastics
Today the Senate Environment and Communications Committee has released a landmark report into the causes and impacts of marine plastic pollution in...
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NATION: It’s on, July 2 Poll
ABCC legislation rejected giving Coalition double dissolution trigger Senate rejects Australian Building and Construction Commission legislation for a second time, giving government...
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Tasmanian Aborigines were cut off by the rising waters of the Bass Strait …
A fascinating byway of history … Tasmanian Aborigines were cut off by the rising waters of Bass Strait before the boomerang was...
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Planning law changes will change Tassie forever
Planning laws are being significantly changed this year. The new Tasmanian Planning Scheme (TPS) is out now on the Tas Planning Commission...
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Minister Gutwein is right on the money
Minister Gutwein is right on the money here! Launceston, since colonisation, has imagined the Tamar as a sewer in much the same...
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Port Arthur: Tasman Peninsula’s communications issues still not fixed 20 years on
Communications issues continue to plague the Tasman Peninsula 20 years after the Port Arthur massacre. In April 1996, after Martin Bryant began...
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‘Embracing the Climate Challenge’ …
*Pic: Climate Change in ‘action’ … this year’s devastating bushfires in World Heritage Areas. Pic by Rob Blakers, https://www.robblakers.com/ INTRODUCTION The events...
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East Timor is mad as hell, and it’s our fault
*Pic: Jose Belo (left) and Commander David Alex (right) (Photo: John Martinkus) The East Timorese may be poor, but they are not...
