Tasmanian Times
Environment
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902Will ‘conservative white males’ ever be prepared to act on evidence on tobacco control?
Tasmania still has the highest smoking rates of any state in Australia. Around 1400 Tasmanians have died from tobacco related diseases and...
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Confessions of an amateur political campaigner
In May and June this year I put aside my usual work and worked flat out unpaid organising a campaign for a...
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Hiding behind terrorism
The news lately has been unremittingly bad – one attack after another. Mass murder by truck, mass shootings with guns, killings with...
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NZ: Zero Invasive Predators … and Scientists
A bunch of “scientists”, working under the acronym ZIP (Zero Invasive Predators), are not out to save any particular species, nor to...
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New Zealand’s ‘Impossible Dream’: a Predator Free Country
Poison notices greet tourists in New Zealand South Island bush robin is heavily hit by poison drops Native falcon – a predator...
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Stanley Burbury Theatre, 6pm to 8pm, 12 August: Rally to protect takayna/Tarkine
Learn more HERE
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Solar-powered ‘Tesla town’ coming to inner Melbourne
A new suburb being planned in Melbourne may take out the much coveted title of Australia’s most environmentally friendly. Local property developer...
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UTAS: If we build it twice, we ‘estimate’ they will come …
*Pic: Inveresk nearby … Looking towards Aurora Stadium, Monday June 6 at the height of flooding … The University of Tasmania’s northern...
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Dirty money? The ‘corrupt’ Malaysian pollie who bought into Adelaide Uni
Australian universities have been confronted with a new cautionary tale about the perils of accepting donations from potentially corrupt foreign officials. Adelaide...
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The People Problem in Global Warming is Shunned
*Pic: From HERE Another in our series on New Zealand … with whom Tasmania shares so much, from Gondwana to 1080… New...
