Tasmanian Times
Environment
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1.8KGunns at the mercy of the market. Permits: Booth lash. Logging goes on
SHARES in timber company Gunns Limited resumed trading at 10.30am today after a six-week break while forest compensation was hammered out. The...
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Premier must reject Venture’s monster mine. Green’s Canberra tilt
Tarkine National Coalition is calling on the Premier to intervene to reject a plan by Venture Minerals to establish a chain of...
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Tasmanian foxes – an endangered species
ABC Tasmanian Country Hour – Monday, 19 September 2011 Interview with Fox Eradication Program manager, Craig Elliott http://www.abc.net.au/rural/tas/content/2011/09/s3321071.htm TRANSCRIPT: Rosemary Grant: Well...
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A failure to acknowledge, let alone disclose
DPIPWE’s response to my Right to Information request (On TT, HERE) in regard to the issue of “substantial commencement” fails to disclose...
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Residual Residue
The system of Tasmanian government, with its weak parliament, its ineffectual representative democracy, its timid caucus-hugging party careerists and woodchip corporate minions,...
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Reining in the Mobile phone tower monsters
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has acted to give the community a greater say on the building of mobile phone...
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Cause and effect of Gunnerment
In 2007 Steve Kons MP was caught lying to the Tasmanian Parliament, and the next day one Tasmanian woke up and realised...
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Gunns ‘could announce mill partner Monday’. Enviro groups, Beekeepers back IGA
TIMBER company Gunns could be poised to announce a joint venture partner for its Bell Bay pulp mill as early as Monday....
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Like a voice in the wilderness
‘Life on earth is inconceivable without trees,” the great Russian playwright Anton Chekov wrote in a letter to a friend in the...
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The Fantastic Story of Mr Fox
Here’s a Tasmanian fox yarn that hit the headlines in the same month the twin towers of World Trade Centre in New...
