Tasmanian Times
Knowledge
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1.4KIPCC: rapid carbon emission cuts vital to stop severe impact of climate change
• Guardian: IPCC: rapid carbon emission cuts vital to stop severe impact of climate change Most important assessment of global warming yet...
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Why the anti-protest bill is necessary to achieve FSC …
*Pic: Resources Minister Paul Harriss and Premier Will Hodgman Penalty Table Trumps Amendments The Workplaces Protection from Protesters Bill 2014 This Bill...
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Park Management Trust happy to extend development zone on top of Mt Wellington
*Pic: of the Organ Pipes, Mt Wellington ONE of the first hurdles of the current cable car proposal looks set to be...
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A Forest Industry that only Survives thanks to Taxpayer Largesse
An overview of the World of Forestry in Tasmania – as protected and promoted by Paul Harriss, the Minister for Forests –...
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Parliamentary standards dropping …
*Pic: Senator David Leyonhjelm The word ‘dickhead’ has made its way into parliamentary speech. Senator David Leyonhjelm (Lib Dem, NSW) used it...
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Writers and artists … saving wildlife and habitats …
Image, Ralph Wessman, HERE, where there are more images from the festival Writers and artists are at the forefront of the battle...
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The colour of envy
Monday blues. And before the day even starts, gloom, because there’s nothing but bad news on the radio for company: Syria, Iraq,...
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Fixing Australia’s democratic deficit
Australians buying a used car benefit from clear consumer safeguards, writes Geoff Heriot. Why not accord voters similar protection from the excesses...
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Not everyone likes devils …
The recent finding of what was almost certainly a shot devil in bush near Rocky Cape starkly reminds me that, despite the...
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (36)
The “Respect the Mountain” forum ( here, here, and here ) at the Hobart Town Hall earlier this year prompted Don Knowler...
