Tasmanian Times
Environment
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1.3KWhat has happened to University culture? Whither the Launceston campus?
The time when universities were called sheltered workshops for the intellectually abled has long since passed. Corporate thinking has utterly absorbed the...
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STATE … of denial
Both the Tasmanian government and the Tourism Industry Council have criticized Lonely Planet’s latest guide ( ABC Wrap HERE and Will Hodgman...
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NATION: Another week … Another backflip
*ABC pic of Greg Hunt spruiking … ‘We will aim to do more’, a glad-handed Greg Hunt promises the world, having just...
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Tasmania’s water dilemma …
In July 2015, a researcher based in South Australia forwarded information to Friends of the Earth regarding non-microbiological detections in drinking water...
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TPP Trade Pact Would Give Wall Street a Trump Card to Block Regulations
Banks and other financial institutions would be able to use provisions in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership to block new regulations that cut...
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Saudi Wells Running Dry — of Water — Spell End of Desert Wheat
*Image from here • Riyadh will import all the wheat needed for 2016 consumption. • Aquifers that had irrigated wheat crops depleting...
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‘My body was not mine, but the US Military’s’
Inside the disturbing sex industry thriving around America’s bases. At night in the Songtan camptown outside Osan Air Base in South Korea,...
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First Paleo Toilets To Be Installed In Fitzroy … !
A range of new Paleo public toilets will be installed in Melbourne’s inner north, allowing devotees to relieve themselves just as our...
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State Government considers secret private bid for public ‘medical services’
The State Government is refusing to disclose details of unsolicited bids received by the Office of the Coordinator-General from companies pitching proposals...
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Health underfunded by $1.4 billion over a decade
Tasmania’s state health system has been underfunded, compared with those in other states, by at least $1.4 billion over the past decade....
