Tasmanian Times
Environment
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884STATE: UTAS students risk arrest for fossil free divestment
As many as ten students from the University of Tasmania have occupied the office of the Vice Chancellor, refusing to leave until...
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Tasmania’s environmental laws leave plenty of room for improvement
A new EDO Tasmania report, Lifting the Standards: Opportunities to Improve Tasmania’s Environmental Laws, finds that Tasmania’s laws do not meet national...
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Off-road motorists’ continued use of Tarkine tracks makes farce of ban
*Pic: Ted Mead’s picture of Ordinance Point’s grand Aboriginal midden … Despite Parks and Wildlife installation of coastal fencing, many vehicles pushed...
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NATION: RET a shocking betrayal by the old parties …
• Independent Member for Denison Andrew Wilkie: The deal announced today to lower the Renewable Energy Target from 41,000 gigawatt hours to...
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STATE: John West would turn in his grave …
The Sunday Examiner (17th May) published a Hate Letter (above) aimed at former Australian Greens leader Senator Christine Milne and written by...
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NATION: Hockey’s incredible Budget Back-Flip
Joe Hockey’s second Budget set a new backflip benchmark even for the Abbott government which has elevated flip flops into a key...
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Martyn Turner visits Oz …
I wrote this piece for the Irish Times after a five week visit to Australia in 1999. Those who concur with the...
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Mayor Coad’s Letter to the Editor on local government reform …
Letter to Editor Local Government Reform As Mayor of the Huon Valley Council, I make it clear that my following comments do...
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We need to change thinking and direction. Our future demands it …
Kim Williams has reached a remarkable level of achievement. First as an learned man of music, film and broadcasting, and secondly through...
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Scientists: Earth Endangered by New Strain of Fact-Resistant Humans
MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report) – Scientists have discovered a powerful new strain of fact-resistant humans who are threatening the ability of Earth...
