Tasmanian Times
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1.6KRodney Croome’s Lent Lecture to St Matthews …
St Matthews’ noticeboard Rodney Croome with the minister – Fr Peter MacLoed-Miller – who issued the invitation to Mr Croome Greeting the...
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Tasmanian fuel reduction program an Australian first
Lilydale blanketed by burn-off smoke, March 2010 … Tasmanian communities will be safer from the threat of bushfires, with a ground-breaking new...
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Wilderness Draft Plan should be withdrawn
The Wilderness Society, Australian Conservation Foundation and Environment Tasmania have made the attached submission on the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area Draft...
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A multi-billion dollar disaster in the making
In our last 3 newsletters, Action for Tasmanian Autistic Children has carried stories focusing on the NDIS. The first two of these...
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Wotif founder Graeme Wood takes stake in battery storage developer Redflow
Graeme Wood, the founder of online accommodation booking site Wotif and a major donor to climate and clean energy initiatives, has emerged...
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A history of two legal systems in 700 words …
*Pic: of William Blackstone … serial liar … People can lie; circumstances cannot. – Legal maxim The systems are the adversary system...
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From unused pool to ecosystem cool
*Pic: Ann Jones’ pic of a backyard pool turned into a natural haven … There are over 1.2 million homes in Australia...
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Greedy Californians are almost out of water
Residents acknowledge the problem — and the potential disaster it could cause — and then go about wasting more of the precious...
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Researchers raise concerns over underwater Totten Glacier melt
WARM seawater sloshing around the base of one of Antarctica’s largest glaciers could cause sea levels to rise faster than anticipated, according...
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Saturn’s Groovy Rings
From afar, Saturn’s rings look like a solid, homogenous disk of material. But upon closer examination from the unmanned spaceraft Cassini, we...
