Tasmanian Times
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933Tasmania, Tourism and the Elephant in the Room
There seems to be an accepted wisdom in Tasmania across a broad range of political persuasions that tourism is one of our...
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The Tasmanian Forest Gravy Train
Pic: Daniel Haley What started as government funding to compensate for native forest areas lost to the Tasmanian timber industry has become...
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Dr Bob Brown announced as new patron of rebranded Tarkine campaign
The Tarkine National Coalition is pleased to make two exciting announcements that we believe will help increase the national profile of this...
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Plastic bag ban set to be delivered. One step away …
The Tasmanian Greens today hailed the tabling of the Plastic Shopping Bags Ban Bill (2013) as the first formal step towards a...
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CSIRO: ‘This dreadful news’
The decision by the CSIRO to cut 13 Hobart-based staff is dreadful news. People losing their job is terrible at any time...
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Full Moon Silhouette
Image here Full Moon Silhouettes is a real time video of the moon rising over the Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New...
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MP leads a new war of the woods
Tony Mulder Only months after achieving the impossible – peace in Tasmania’s forests – timber chiefs and greenies face the unthinkable: a...
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Kidney disease is Tassie’s ‘silent killer’
WHO links pesticides to kidney disease in Sri Lanka and bans 3 hazardous pesticides still used in Australia Tasmania has an increasing...
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Veils and Tin Hats
Peter Henning More than 200 Tasmanian nurses enlisted in military forces during the Second World War. The vast majority joined the Australian...
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Veils and Tin Hats
More than 200 Tasmanian nurses enlisted in military forces during the Second World War. The vast majority joined the Australian Army Nursing...
