Tasmanian Times
Environment
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The price of life
An interesting scenario with agriculture in Australia. Farmers are complaining loudly that the prices they get for their produce is way too...
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A talk with the UN
21st April 2005 To: Patrick Durst Senior Forestry Officer FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific 39 Phra Atit Road, Bangkok...
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Irynej Skira: A tribute
Dr Irynej Skira, Tasmanian scientist and naturalist, died on February 18 in Hobart after being taken ill while doing research into birdlife...
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Tasmania’s WMDs
With around 18% of last year’s baits taken or over 2800 baits (The Mercury, 22 April), (Victims of fox 1080 target) the...
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Sue Napier, 1992
What a pity Sue Napier no longer finds the need to speak out against such an abuse of human rights. She did...
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A parrot’s tale
The endangered Orange-Bellied Parrot may now have a future, with scientists developing a stable sub-population at Birches Inlet from captive birds as...
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The suburban forest
How does someone get to be the leader of a political party in a developed western country, where the basics of the...
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Little Red Riding Hood
THE arc of a rainbow spread across the Waterworks Valley as I hurried home to beat the rain. I had been walking...
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Germany … and lawsuits
Woodchips and Law Suit Australian timber company sues conservationists – who fear for their right to speak their mind Urs Walterlin, Hobart...
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Engineering Tasmania
It is a deliberate policy designed to facilitate the ‘get-big-or-get-out’-of-the-country stance of the Tasmanian Government. Interesting to note that the massive landholdings...
