Tasmanian Times
Environment
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1.0K‘Senate report provides national blueprint to solve recycling crisis …’
Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, the Chairperson for the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications Inquiry into waste and recycling, provides the...
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‘State government is keeping solar owners in the dark’
The returned Liberal state government announced that it would “begin [a] review of the Solar Feed-in Tariff” in its first 100 days....
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Dark Mofo and tourists …
Hobart City Council To ALL the Aldermen! GPO Box Hobart TAS 7001, 24.06.2018 Dear Council, RE: DARK MOFO, and TOURISTS (two related...
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‘Iconic brand moves to protect iconic mountain … Brown’
*Pic: ROB WALLS. Richard Flanagan’s memorable speech to an anti-cable car rally in Cascade Park a month ago. The speech was before...
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‘Rank bank Fin soup! Fake news at the Australian Financial Review’
*Pic: The Fin has scooped the pool for journalism awards granted by Westpac and Citibank (Image screenshot Australian Financial Review, 19-20 May...
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NATION: Aspirational? Don’t try to take us all for a ride, Mr Turnbull
First published June 25 Ageing chestnut mare, Aspirational, returns to the Canberra track, next week, in the lead-up to The Super Saturday...
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Climate catastrophe …
37 years ago scientists were predicting what is happening now … Sources … https://thinkprogress.org/30-years-after-a-brave-scientist-warned-us-about-global-warming-deniers-run-america-20fc66beb133/ https://atmos.washington.edu/~davidc/ATMS211/articles_optional/Hansen81_CO2_Impact.pdf
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‘Brown condemns political violence’
Former Greens Leader Bob Brown says that vandalism on Braddon Greens candidate Jarrod Edwards’ car on Friday night should lead to an...
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Mercury Talking Point: ‘Questions on election transparency a matter of democracy’
ACCOUNTABILITY and transparency are in short supply when it comes to politics in Tasmania. The March State election, which was bought by...
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A Tourism Apocalypse
*Pic: The vista greeting tourists … First published June 22 What a delightful scene for tourists wishing to visit the epic sites...
