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922Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction. 2014 the hottest year on record …
A team of scientists, in a groundbreaking analysis of data from hundreds of sources, has concluded that humans are on the verge...
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90% of submissions to Tasmanian fracking review say No!
The vast majority of those who wrote submissions to the government review on fracking in Tasmania sounded a loud and clear ‘No’...
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Love is stronger than hate …
It’s a game I play every year. How long does it take to put a stain on New Year? Just as increasingly...
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Fox Scientists: Both Sides Stumped?
PREAMBLE: Officially, the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre (IA-CRC), has seemed unwilling to consider that fox scats, imported from the mainland for...
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (46)
Vern Hansson’s amazing picture of a black-headed honeyeater feeding a pallid cuckoo … The “Respect the Mountain” forum ( here, here, and...
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Spotted Handfish for Tasmanian animal emblem … ?
Matthew Groom (Minister for Environment, Parks and Heritage) reckons it would be a good idea to make the Tasmanian Devil the official...
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Dickens on our corrupt legal system
For those interested in the law, Sunday night is Bleak House. We fill a beaker of Armagnac, set fire to a long...
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Saudi Arabia’s history of hypocrisy we choose to ignore
On Thursday, a Saudi blogger will receive his second flogging for ‘insulting Islam’. Robert Fisk looks at a barbaric regime with a...
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The ad Doritos doesn’t want you to see!
Watch here
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Bob Brown: Wilderness degradation should lead to unique label being dropped
*Pic: Wilderness photographer Rob Blakers’ classic shot of the Upper Florentine Forests (?) Jet skis to churn up Bathurst Harbour Elder environmentalist...
