Tasmanian Times
Environment
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1.0KTCT blast. White-out fears. Leadership for Lara. I will not be moved, says Julia
Statement from the Tasmanian Conservation Trust regarding the ‘Tasmanian Forest Agreement: Heads of Agreement’ The Tasmanian Conservation Trust Executive Council met this...
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Lara: Like a spoiled rich teenager with a spending problem …
With just about every indicator confirming that Tasmania’s economy is as healthy as Derrryn Hinch’s liver, what are the options facing our...
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Why retail is struggling in Tasmania
Retail depends very largely on discretionary funding Amount spent on petrol in 1998 in Tasmania: $355 million dollars approximately Amount spent on...
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Fox baits laid in suburbs … as Maria cull lashed
… Veterinary pathologist David Obendorf also has criticised the baiting so close to suburbs. “It beggars belief. I am surprised they are...
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High Farce
In September 1938 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew back to England brandishing an agreement and declaring “peace for our time”, oft...
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Green groups protest, Lara lashes Libs, Farmers wary
• Miranda Gibson: Still Wild Still Threatened Protesters abseil from Parliament House Canberra in a call for real forest protection. Two conservationists...
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$276M forests deal. Where to from here? The Naked Truth …
• MONDAY: • The Age: Tasmania in $274m forests deal • The Australian: Giddings faces Greens ire on forests package • Mercury:...
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You’ve got to be joking
Nostradamus with apologies I am extremely grateful for the feedback and encouragement I have received about my previous musings (HERE) and I...
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Fire and humans
Professor of Forest Ecology David Bowman from the University of Tasmania in Hobart, talks about human involvement with fire and its consequences....
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Plantations up in biomass smoke
EXCLUSIVE: Great Southern Plantations receiver McGrathNicol is under attack over the foreign sell-off of 252,000ha of farm land. And the chief executive...
