Tasmanian Times
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772International spotlight on arsenic and lead poisoning in Australian lead mining town
The Global Lead Advice and Support Service (GLASS), has published, on one of the most popular lead websites in the world, the...
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Tasmanian Reverie
Canto One The entrance to the old abandoned primary school at Rocherlea sports a pleasant sign boasting that the driver of the...
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Hip, Hip Hooray …
When Pope Urban urged Holy war he spoke in these words … “O race of Franks! Race beloved and chosen of God…...
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Paper Mill Upsets Baikalsk’s Hopes for Strawberries and Skis
BAIKALSK, Irkurtsk Region — Baikalsk, a town of 15,000 located on the shore of the famed Lake Baikal, is haunted by two...
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Forestry Smoke … not a good start for David O’Byrne
In Budget Estimates recently David O’Byrne MP, was reported in Hansard as saying the acknowledged dangerous levels of forestry smoke earlier this...
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Big blow delays rooftop turbines
Strong winds have swept aside plans to install four large wind turbines on top of a Hobart office building. This morning, a...
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Tasmania should go it alone on container deposit legislation
The Tasmanian Greens today reiterated their long-held view that Tasmania should go it alone on container waste management and called on Environment...
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Bookies buying into climate change race
Is climate change “crap”, as Tony Abbott once reportedly said? We’ve heard complex arguments from scientists armed with graphs and pie charts....
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Cities for living not roads
Alderman Philip Cocker today called on the State and Federal Governments to stop wasting vast amounts of money on road works and...
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Great Things Happening in the State’s North
Exciting times in Launceston with serious undertakings underway, it can be reported that movement on the flood levies is advancing and has...
