Tasmanian Times
Forestry
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902Tasmania’s World Heritage debate needs to look beyond the trees
*Pic: Rob Blakers’ pic of Florentine Valley World Heritage proposed for delisting by State and Federal Liberal governments … The debate around...
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Country towns: death or deliverance. A visit to Scottsdale …
*Pic: A sandwich board in the main street of Scottsdale surrounded by buildings for sale. (Di Martin/ABC). The ABC’s Background Briefing investigative...
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Thousands protest governments’ efforts to log Tasmania’s World Heritage forests
*Pics: Today’s protest in Hobart … and, below, the Florentine Valley, one of the forests the Federal Government wants to open to...
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Final preps for Doha departure – release of new World Heritage images and lobby document
*Pic: Oldgrowth wilderness forest, Peak Rivulet, southern Tasmania. *Pic: Rob Blakers http://www.robblakers.com/ The Wilderness Society and renowned photographer Rob Blakers today released...
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Misleading Maps?
In an essay now available on his website, public historian Peter MacFie comments critically on the WHA extension The secretive manner in...
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GetUp: The fake environment group …
Next week the World Heritage Committee meets in Doha, Qatar to decide the future of Tasmania’s World Heritage forests. We have received...
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Abbott Government wastes World Heritage Committee’s time …
Oldgrowth wilderness forest, Peak Rivulet, southern Tasmania. *Pic: Rob Blakers http://www.robblakers.com/ … delist attempt of Tasmania’s forests further discredited • Internal government...
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The Fix is in: Families to pay for Forestry through their Electricity Bills
*Pic: Kim Both on Burnie wharf with FT logs for export… Tasmanian families face paying through increased power bill the Liberal Hodgman...
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The Gay Verdict: A nation disappointed. The John Lawrence analysis …
Garry Stannus’ pic of John Gay leaving court… THE country was disappointed with the $50,000 fine handed to former Gunns chairman John...
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The Hollow Man
Pic: of Eric Hutchinson from his website, http://www.erichutchinson.com.au/ On 30 April I posted an article about the depths politics can plummet towards...
