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1.3KMine plan prompts new Emergency National Heritage bid for Tarkine
In response to the Venture Minerals’ Mount Lindsay open cut mine proposal inside the Meredith Ranges Regional Reserve, the Tarkine National Coalition...
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Tarkine: State must act
Picture: Nicole Anderson The Tasmanian Greens said the continual refusal by Federal Minister Tony Burke to move a National Heritage Listing for...
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Stop delaying marine reserves. Green overrides experts
Picture: Geoff Rollins The Tasmanian Greens today called on the Environment Minister Brian Wightman to stop delaying the implementation of a comprehensive...
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Liberal and Labor water down fish farm planning laws
The Tasmanian Greens said the passage of the Marine Farming Planning Amendment Bill 2011 with the support of Labor and Liberal last...
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Not only in Tassie
The sale of a timber mill in the south-west Western Australian town of Manjimup is taking longer than expected, frustrating the local...
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Good government is about making decisions and setting priorities
Tom Lynch, right of photo While external forces often determine the overall direction a government takes, the path it chooses to get...
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Obama: China reacts angrily. Watch Obama live
Picture, from HERE The first deployment of around 250 US Marines will be sent to the city of Darwin in Australia’s Northern...
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Is Gillard attempting to revive China free trade
With the increasing ascent of China and India as superpowers, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced a review of Australia’s place in...
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Tasmania’s forests vanish as logging continues
Tasmania’s grassroots environment groups have taken peaceful action today to highlight the ongoing loss of forests that should have been protected, after...
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Beauty … in the eye of Dr Amos
Former Forestry Industry Association of Tasmania (FIAT) chairman Dr Julian Amos clearly has scant respect for “every talking head (who) chants the...
