Tasmanian Times
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687Cost of water big sell: $700,000 on spin and marketing
TASMANIA’S three water corporations plan to spend almost three-quarters of a million dollars of public funds on advertising, spin doctors and market...
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Tasmanian Heritage Icon Gets Poked in the Eye
I am writing to express the Lighthouses of Australia Inc disapproval at the recent downgrading of the light at Eddystone Point by...
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Global Warming and its nemesis –the humble plastic!
While walking along the streets of Melbourne with a plastic bag of groceries in hand, a couple made a comment on how...
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Taxing our carbon waste dump
One of the key items on Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s agenda is pricing carbon and her new multi-party committee aims to spearhead...
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Tas Uni should phase out sale of bottled water
University of Tasmania should take the lead from the University of Canberra and phase out bottled water on campuses. Greens Alderman Bill...
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Tell Japan to stop wasting police time: Brown
An official complaint should be sent to Japan over its misuse of Australian police resources following another raid on the Sea Shepherd...
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Rail should have infrastructure priority
Community-based public and transport advocacy group, Future Transport Tasmania (FTT), today acknowledged the new chair of the Tasmanian Infrastructure Advisory Council (TIAC),...
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Cygnet … and mining exploration?
In today’s Mercury (Sat. the 5th), there is a public notice for a mining exploration lease application. The lease area is around,...
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Renewed calls for duck-shooting ban marks season opening
The Tasmanian Greens today renewed their calls for a ban on the annual recreational duck shooting season which opens this weekend, saying...
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Gunns and Government must regain community trust to justify a new pulp mill
The Wilderness Society today reiterated its opposition to the Tamar Valley pulp mill proposal. Wilderness Society spokesman Vica Bayley said Gunns proposed...
