Tasmanian Times
Sciences
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Careful research in call to halt old-growth logging
Dr David Lindenmayer Canberra Times THERE are many reasons to halt old-growth logging in Australia, including biodiversity conservation, the maintenance of water...
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Dear Ferdie Kroon
Rick Pilkington I have lived in this state all my life and the attack by the contractors was one of the most...
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Bullshit, says Bartlett
Mathew Denholm The Australian TASMANIAN Premier David Bartlett has sided with the forest industry in a fierce debate with conservationists about whether...
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Michael Stokes: Re pulpmill pipeline
Michael Stokes Senior Lecturer Faculty of Law University of Tasmania The council decision not to sign the pipeline agreement, for whatever reason,...
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Bombshell allegations rock Bartlett Government
Nick McKim Greens MR “So much for the new broom, and so much for the line in the sand; this is a...
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West Tamar residents call to arms
Bob McMahon Tasmanians Against the Pulp Mill MR “The State Government has created anarchy. The way for them to rectify the mess...
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Lennon lite?
Peter Henning Lennon wanted silence, to render dissenters voiceless. John Howard wanted to create an era of political passivity, a “relaxed and...
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Is the Planning System in Crisis? (Part 3)
IN the third of this four part series, Emma Riley, State President of the Planning Institute of Australia, Tasmanian Division, further examines...
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Forests for woodchips
Gemma Tillack Wilderness Society MR The Wilderness Society has estimated that at least 95% of logs from these forests with special values...
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A policy whoopee cushion
Roger Hanney Burke is Chairman of the Australian Environment Foundation. AEF regularly proclaim their independence and devotion to practical environmentalism. But they...
