Tasmanian Times
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1.7KFire in the Tarkine – A Dynamic Ecology
*Pic: Ted Mead’s picture of rain fog across the Tarkine rainforested wilderness … Fire is no stranger to the Tarkine landscape. The...
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Hope for HIV in Africa: Observations by an Eldoret Journeyman
I first came to Eldoret, Kenya, in January 2000 amid the hustle and bustle that is associated with the end of a...
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Growth Isn’t Everything — Just Ask Japan
From Wall Street to K Street to Main Street, pessimism about the global economy has become commonplace. The world economy may have...
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“Clean, Green” New Zealand’s Rivers in Crisis
*Pic: What legacy are tomorrow New Zealand citizens being left with increasingly depleted and polluted rivers? New Zealand’s rivers are in a...
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Maori Trusts Allow 1080 Poison to be Dropped Directly into Water
Information provided by the Department of Conservation and TBFree states that over 470,000 hectares of New Zealand forests are planned to be...
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Letters to my grandchildren (9)
Dear Chilliwops, Sometimes the world seems crazy. If you read the newspapers – I am very selective about the newspapers I read...
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Easter 1916 – a terrible beauty?
This year’s Easter is the historical centenary of Dublin’s 1916 Easter rebellion for an independent Island-of-Ireland Republic, which began on the Easter...
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Air quality … courtesy of Forestry Tasmania …
*Pic: Smoke from two fires West of Glen Huon And Another to the NW(far right)210316.jpg Smoke from three fires meeting over Glen...
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Advance Australia Where … ?
*Pic by Gail Boserio: Dr Bob Brown, Julian Burside, Kerry O’Brien and Phillip Adams. Advance Australia where? Thursday 24 March 2016 10:05PM...
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TARKINE … After The Fire …
A completely alien landscape. Every thing has changed. I feel so out of place. Yet it is all strangely familiar … The...
