Tasmanian Times
Forestry
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910Rivals meet to end war on forests
A report in The Australian newspaper (10/07/2012) tells us that the forestry IGA parties are currently in Melbourne in a four-day lockdown...
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Tassie tree-sitter claims Australian record
The visit from Mum. Environmental activist Miranda Gibson has set an Australian record for a tree-sitting protest in defense of Tasmania’s forests....
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RET: good for global warming, good for jobs … and …
“The latest warning from scientists about the impacts of climate change – this time from the world’s most respected marine biologists, should...
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Flatlining Gunns now faces $64m tax bill
Graphic: Tamar Devil Tasmanian timber company Gunns is facing a multi-million-dollar tax bill. The company has told the Securities Exchange that it...
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Dispossessed
Consider the sorrow contained in the paragraphs that follow – for this is the anguish of the dispossessed, ousted by modern development...
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The most viewed video on the SMH and Age websites …
My documentary “A WORM in the APPLE” is screening at GAIAM in the USA and Canada and on Fairfax TV, throughout Australia....
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Forester accuses Institute of Foresters of skewing forests report
A member of the Institute of Foresters of Australia (IFA) has criticised the organisation for misrepresenting his work in its critique of...
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This is the way the world ends …
The Hollow Men (1925), a poem by T. S. Eliot (Wikipedia here) We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men...
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Gunns: Writing on the wall?
Graphic: Tamar Devil Timber company Gunns has foreshadowed a write down of its 200,000 hectare Tasmanian forest estate. The company has told...
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Does Australian policy support optimal greenhouse gas mitigation outcomes?
FabianoXimenes (far left) shown here as a guest speaker in a forum on bio-energy held in Hobart on March 7 this year....
