Tasmanian Times
Environment
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824Ocean farmers are using technology to start an economic revolution and save humanity
I’m a fisherman who dropped out of high school in 1986 at the age of 14. Over my lifetime, I’ve spent many...
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BASSLINK: Tasmania’s power crisis
*Pic: The Buck stops here: Minister Matthew Groom in Parliament … *Pic: This incredibly stark photo illustrates Hydro’s problem … Taken March...
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The Budget …
Budget 2016: ‘jobs and growth’ pitch costs wealthy retirees, smokers and multinationals Scott Morrison’s first budget offers company and personal tax cuts...
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Ain’t no sunshine …
Salamanca last Saturday … Last Saturday was sunny, and as I needed some bamboo sticks, off I went to Salamanca market. What...
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With the fall of the Green Zone, ‘our’ Iraq comes undone
There used to be a fiction of safety in Iraq, but with Australian and American troops gone, that fiction has crumbled too,...
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NATION: No roadmap on Manus for Turnbull
• Peter Martin, Economics Editor, The Age: Federal budget 2016: Tax cuts. $80,000 is anything but average If Scott Morrison thinks that...
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Precious Freshwater diverted to Aquaculture
Tasmania is in a period of historic drought. The Huon Aquaculture Company has a freshwater “flow-through” hatchery hidden away behind a stand...
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Tim Slade responds to Mr Brewster, CEO of TasWater
*Pic: TasWater CEO Mike Brewster’s letter to the NE Advertiser … Dear Sir, It is very important to note that the catalyst...
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THE BUDGET: Crying for a tax break
*Pic: Whisky distiller William McHenry AUSTRALIANS may have to go overseas to buy the country’s best spirits as craft distillers crying for...
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Let’s dare to talk about it … a message of hope
Forester, Speth, right, is interviewed on sustainability … The response to the “What nobody dares to say to you about climate change”...
