Tasmanian Times
Forestry
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Fighting the big Gunns
Along a narrow dirt road, about 90 minutes from Tasmania’s provincial capital of Hobart lies the small, residential community of Lucaston. It’s...
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Dear Peg Putt
Dear Peg Putt, When Parliament resumes please ask Paul Lennon this question:Will the Government extend the same rights to Tasmanian taxpayers, or...
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Postcards from Tasmania
In an article called ‘Postcards from Tasmania’ he wrote: That is what is extraordinary about Tasmania. It’s the quality and colour of...
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Coming clean: what the tests reveal
In the “Scammell Report”, Environmental Problems Georges Bay, Tasmania , it was hypothesised that a toxic compound killed the oysters in Georges...
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The real cost of Labor?
I used Adele Sainte-Marie’s ideas, Labor’s deals: The real cost?, to calculate the following table. The table contains estimated costs per Tasmanian...
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Come clean!
The submission to the Federal AMA through the Tas AMA was a briefing paper and never stated to be anything else. It...
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Come clean
The Department of Health in Tasmania is not being responsible nor truthful if it is claiming that there is “very little contamination”...
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Pulp friction
The controversy over the role of chemicals in Tasmania’s timber industry has provoked an aggressive response.Macken’s article begins: Life in Tasmania’s timber...
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Despair…
Among our group to Save our Sisters we have an economist, librarian, social worker, doctor, artist, tourism operator, electrician, orchardist, teacher, nurses,...
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Talkback questions
Talkback 2. A radio program in which members of the public participate by telephone. (Macquarie Dictionary, 2nd ed., emphasis mine)My favourite occasional...
