Tasmanian Times
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766Private land planned-burning pilot project
A response to Peter Whish-Wilson’s article, Greens Remain Committed to Fuel Reduction Burns, Call for Additional Resourcing, here There has been considerable...
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TFA: We stand by our fundamental opposition to the Bill
The TFGA was to have presented a formal submission this week to the Legislative Council Select Committee that is looking at the...
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Greens Remain Committed to Fuel Reduction Burns, Call for Additional Resourcing
Kim Foale/EPA Senator Peter Whish-Wilson has just returned from Bicheno, East Coast Tasmania where he met with and listened to fire-impacted communities,...
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TFA: A small window of opportunity
Tasmanian Forests Agreement: Submission to the Legislative Council The lesson of the last two decades – and especially the period since the...
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Such endangerment should be a crime
15th January 2013 Referral Business Entry Point, EIA Policy Section (EPBC Act) Approvals and Wildlife Division Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage...
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Greens call for greater allocation on bike spending
2013 is the year to allocate greater spending on bike infrastructure in our capital city. One of my new year’s resolutions is...
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Oprah: Armstrong ‘met the moment’ with admission
Lance Armstrong has finally come clean. Armstrong confessed to doping during an interview with Oprah Winfrey taped on Monday, just a couple...
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Tarkine mines could be last straw for Tasmanian devils
Road traffic is a threat to Tasmania’s few health devils – increased truck traffic in the Tarkine won’t help. Rhys Allen Just...
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Climate change: not a civilized problem
Soon after the fire that destroyed whole towns in Victoria I made a comment that one Tasmanian politician saw as inappropriate in...
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Human creature, vulnerable and heroic
Tim Holmes (not pictured) and his wife Tammy (second from left) huddled under a jetty for three hours with their grandchildren while...
