Tasmanian Times
Environment
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Gunns still in plantation contention
RACHEL WILLIAMS, Examiner TASMANIAN timber company Gunns remains in contention to secure a 100,000 hectare plantation estate from failed managed investment scheme...
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Community urges Prime Minister Rudd to commit to a stronger climate plan
HANNAH AULBY, Climate Action Hobart Local community climate group Climate Action Hobart today supported the Senate’s vote against the Federal Government’s Carbon...
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Compromising the Tarkine strategy
HELEN KEMPTON, Mercury TASMANIA needs to grow up and stop political agendas, an academic told a forum in Strahan yesterday. It was...
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Hobart: Shabby and directionless
TURNOFF THETELLY Absolutely Philip Lowe (3). Seems green snouts are every bit as keen to dig into the trough of public money...
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US knew dangers of Agent Orange …
Dr MARIANN LLOYD-SMITH Another interesting piece on chemical company cover ups over Agent Orange. While they knew in 1965 there was a...
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Greens slam dishonest spin on pulp mill
KIM BOOTH The Tasmanian Greens today (Wednesday) refuted claims by the Forest Industry Association of Tasmania (FIAT) that only plantation timber will...
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Aerial spraying by-law rejected
READER Can I draw your attention to a most interesting but unexplained item in Tuesday’s Examiner ? It was on page 11...
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Rudd, Garrett and Wong are a bloody disgrace
KARL STEVENS, http://west-tamar-talk.blogspot.com/ It’s become the harshest indictment yet of spineless Australian politicians. Rudd, Garrett, Penny Wong, Tony Burke, Kim Carr and...
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726Heritage philistines strike
PETER Crown Land department has begun to demolish this historically-significant bridge because “it’s too expensive to remove the lead paint”. Can someone...
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Pig farmer fined over animal cruelty
ABC ONLINE A north-east Tasmanian pig farmer who pleaded guilty to four charges of animal cruelty has been fined more than $2,000...
