Tasmanian Times
Environment
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693Act, don’t react
“The time has come the walrus said, to talk of many things – of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages...
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We want safe cycling!
Hundreds of bike riders are expected to turn out at 3pm this Sunday on the second Sandy Bay Road Family Fun Ride....
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Federal Hotels: the turning point?
The closure of the West Coast Wilderness Railway will have a devastating effect on West Coast tourism operators, none more so than...
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934
Pulp Friction – Fact not Fiction
In 2009, at the height of a passionate public debate on the merits or otherwise of a giant pulp-mill proposed for the...
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970
No basket-case: Tasmania on the bumpy road to economic sustainability
Is Tasmania at a tipping point? Over the next two weeks The Conversation, in conjunction with Griffith REVIEW and the University of...
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939
Guitar wood supplier predicts sound future
Tasmanian tonewood merchant Robert MacMillan has been in the media lately telling a good news story about the forest industry – a...
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836
Vandemonian Dreaming
Image: ‘Clydes Island’, an oil painting by Kim Peart, completed on Sunday 28th April 1996 in one of the old shops in...
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Earnest Thoughtful Men Who Have Discovered The Ultimate Technology
In four decades of debating energy issues I can’t avoid noticing one stand-out sociological phenomenon – for every possible energy source you...
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863
A Deeper Level of Denial
The denial of science can be seen among creationists, where belief is more valid than truth. In a similar way, the denial...
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Rising risk prices out new coal-fired plants: report
Australia is unlikely to build new baseload power stations burning coal because of tumbling prices for renewable energy and the rising cost...
