Sciences

Wedging Lennon

Late last year Tasmanian company Gunns, the world’s largest hardwood woodchip exporter, commenced proceedings in the Victorian Supreme Court against twenty individuals...

Germany … and lawsuits

Woodchips and Law Suit Australian timber company sues conservationists – who fear for their right to speak their mind Urs Walterlin, Hobart...

Engineering Tasmania

It is a deliberate policy designed to facilitate the ‘get-big-or-get-out’-of-the-country stance of the Tasmanian Government. Interesting to note that the massive landholdings...

The Examiner eviscerated …

Feral Cat-astrophe (2)

Dear Minister, I write to you in response to a question asked by Nick McKim, MHA, In Their Own Words, regarding the...

Feral Cat-astrophe (1)

And feral cats continue to pose a serious environmental threat for the island State. With the demise of Tasmanian devil populations across...

South Sister, writs etc

Praise for stay on South Sister logging And, South Sister’s story … Legal gags on critics debated There were weekend articles in...

Autumn in paradise

As I reach for my asthma medication I note with delight that autumn has arrived in Tasmania. From last year’s experience at...

Beekeepers’ cry from the heart

Dr Hans Drielsma (Mercury Letters, February 22) has again taken it upon himself to try to bamboozle the people of Tasmania with...

Tests clear … but not final

St Helens’ water supply has been cleared on three sides in the first week of March – with DPIWE’s first quarterly river...