Tasmanian Times
Forestry
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974World Heritage Area bureaucratic obfuscation …
Readers will recall this post of 12 January: World Heritage desecration . As indicated I made representations to Minister ( for State...
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The Plight of the Orange-bellied Parrot
The Orange Bellied Parrot’s range … Can We Save it? Yes We Can! Listed on the Commonwealth EPBC act 1999, and classified...
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Giant pine scale threat
Download … Giant-pine-scale-a-new-insect-pest_final-A4.pdf Biosecurity Advisory 04/2015 – Giant pine scale Biosecurity Advisory 04/2015 Giant pine scale (Marchealina hellenica) has recently been found...
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Rise and Fall of Gunns: The Grand Folly …
The rise and fall of Gunns A tale that needed telling. Those are the words of Geoffrey Cousins referring to Quentin Beresford’s...
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Tasmania ditches defamation law changes after public backlash
*Pic: Matt Newton • Richard Griggs, Tasmanian Director of Civil Liberties Australia: Civil Liberties Australia (Tasmania) has welcomed the Tasmanian Government’s decision...
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Fullers, Tailrace: The Rise and Fall of Gunns. Gunns sues state for half-a-mill
A reminder about the launches of WA academic, and former Tasmanian, Quentin Beresford’s book, The Rise and Fall of Gunns, which kick...
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Companies suing critics. That’s the real enemy of free speech
*Pic: Heidi Lee Douglas, Defendant 5 There was moment in his political life when Philip Ruddock became a mini-hero. Within a short...
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TasNetworks $1.65 billion debt Shock
The Treasurer must detail exactly how Tas Networks will pay off their $1.65 billion debt if his assertion that Tasmanian power consumers...
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Something in the Water … An urgent need to re-evaluate
*Pic: ABC of Dr Alison Bleaney and Dr Marcus Scammell at the George River … In Feb 2010 Bleaney and Scammell released...
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More pie-in-the-sky in The Huon?
Huon Valley Guessing Games Cargo-cultism — from time immemorial a chronic tribal condition found mostly in what are termed undeveloped or developing...
