Tasmanian Times
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809The price of power
Transcript Jess Hill: Never has it been more expensive to turn on your appliances. In the last few years, our power bills...
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‘Wasted Jobs’
Southern Beaches Conservation Society Inc. (SBCS) is calling on local and state government and Tasmania’s waste industry to respond to the recently...
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (19)
The “Respect the Mountain” forum ( here, here, and here ) at the Hobart Town Hall earlier this year prompted Don Knowler...
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Councils: they will have no reason to exist
I understand that the Meander Valley Council is considering letting its Interim Planning Scheme fall by the wayside after some 13 years...
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The Hunter of Franklin
Not for the first time do I pose this question: what price for saving our heritage churches? So I’m asking it again...
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The Truth and Ukraine
I have been watching the Ukrainian situation, and it’s reporting in the Australian media with growing fascination and concern. The divergence between...
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A threat to our water, soils, forests, people’s health, and food production
The drilling for coal seam gas, tight gas and shale gas is a threat to our water, soils, forests, people’s health, and...
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Bertrand’s ‘bogans’ riles locals
*Pic: of Bertrand Cadart Intemperate bogan remarks by Glamorgan-Spring Bay Mayor Bertrand Cadart has landed the flamboyant self-styled LeFrog in hot water...
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Solar: The unfair Economic Regulator
The Tasmanian Economic Regulator has dropped the feed-in tariff (FiT) for solar customers who signed up after 30 August 2013 from 8.282c...
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Tony Abbott criticised for “unsettled” Australia remark
*Pic: Retweeted by Tony Windsor, former independent MP, this map shows the boundaries of Aboriginal nations. Hardly ‘unsettled’ Australia Australia’s Prime Minister...
