Tasmanian Times
Environment
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Outspoken, opinionated, out there? Moi?
The producer of the ABC’s Monday night panel debate, Q&A, rang a couple of weeks ago. He said they were looking for...
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849Greg Hunt: Why the carbon tax doesn’t work
THE COALITION’S DIRECT ACTION PLAN ON ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE Incentives for Action SPEECH TO THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CRAWFORD SCHOOL OF...
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Changing wave heights projected as the atmosphere warms
Climate scientists studying the impact of changing wave behaviour on the world’s coastlines are reporting a likely decrease in average wave heights...
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Call for study into health effects of wood smoke
Picture, Geeveston, last Friday, April 12: Matt Newton, http://matthewnewton.com.au/Commercial/People/1/ Picture, Geeveston, last Friday, April 12: Matt Newton, http://matthewnewton.com.au/Commercial/People/1/ Pic: Rob Blakers, http://www.robblakers.com/...
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Tasmania, Tourism and the Elephant in the Room
There seems to be an accepted wisdom in Tasmania across a broad range of political persuasions that tourism is one of our...
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The Tasmanian Forest Gravy Train
Pic: Daniel Haley What started as government funding to compensate for native forest areas lost to the Tasmanian timber industry has become...
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Dr Bob Brown announced as new patron of rebranded Tarkine campaign
The Tarkine National Coalition is pleased to make two exciting announcements that we believe will help increase the national profile of this...
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Plastic bag ban set to be delivered. One step away …
The Tasmanian Greens today hailed the tabling of the Plastic Shopping Bags Ban Bill (2013) as the first formal step towards a...
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Full Moon Silhouette
Image here Full Moon Silhouettes is a real time video of the moon rising over the Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New...
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MP leads a new war of the woods
Tony Mulder Only months after achieving the impossible – peace in Tasmania’s forests – timber chiefs and greenies face the unthinkable: a...
