Tasmanian Times
Environment
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862After the Bang
An expanding shell of debris called SNR 0519-69.0 is left behind after a massive star exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a...
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Call for State and Uni to dump Taib Mahmud … and Ta Ann
*Pic: Abdul Taib Mahmud … Five years after Sarawak Report first exposed Taib Mahmud’s questionable links with Adelaide University, the university’s Vice-Chancellor...
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Call for Alternative Australia Day Date
Political leaders need to be serious about moving Australia Day to a date other than the 26th of January if they are...
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Nyrstar and State Government in talks over ‘hand-up financing’
A $500 million deal between the South Australian Government and minerals giant Nyrstar appears to be a catalyst for the company’s approach...
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Fact-Checking Julia Jabour and Indi Hodgson-Johnston
*Pic: The Bob Barker pursues the illegally-fishing Thunder through a gale … The Sam Simon has collected more than 60km of net...
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Ongoing Salmon Expansion Threatens Endangered Whales and Puts Locals Offside
ABC reporter Conor Duffy’s picture of a salmon farm in southern Tasmania Recreational fishers, yachties, conservationists and locals are alarmed that Tassal...
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Why is there no one interested in coming to this place … ?
I recently took three tours of Chinese business people around some parts of the state that are for sale. I was told...
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STATE: The Irony; France, Tasmania … and Freedom of Speech
The Editor Dear Sir RE: FREEDOM OF SPEECH It is ironic that at the same time there are mass demonstrations in France...
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Spinners who would sell their own grandmothers …
*Pic: PM Abbott and Nodders … this time including Liberal Bass MP Andrew Nicolic, a high-viz gentleman and in the background now-state...
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Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction. 2014 the hottest year on record …
A team of scientists, in a groundbreaking analysis of data from hundreds of sources, has concluded that humans are on the verge...
