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2.5KSTATE: Basslink under water?
*Pic: This incredibly stark photo illustrates Hydro’s problem … Taken March 5 by Isla MacGregor of Lake Burbury. Part of the flooded...
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Seafish Tasmania fined $40,000. EPA investigation cost $100,000
Seafood processing company Seafish Tasmania has been fined $40,000 for breaching the state’s environmental laws. The company pleaded guilty to dumping more...
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An outsider’s look at the contentious practice of clearfell logging ..
*Pic: Logging Lapoinya … industrial-scale clearfelling in a much-loved local forest … and the future veneer trundles off to Ta Ann (over...
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NATION: Abbott’s kamikaze attack on Turnbull threatens to destroy both
*Pic: Tony Abbott … the world is his onion … The week starts badly for an evidence-based, people-respecting Turnbull government. Essential publishes...
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Basslink update 5/3/2016
Map data ©Google imagery 2016 ©2016 TerraMetrics. https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:171704/zoom:10 The good news is:- We found the fault! (Square symbol in the middle of...
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The Heart of Gunns’ collapse (2)
• Trevor Burdon in Comments: I have feedback on file access from his Honour’s Associate, to paraphrase: – My affidavit (including John...
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Parliament Needs to Focus on the Big Issues
With State Parliament returning on Tuesday after a three month break, I have written to the Leader of the Opposition requesting that...
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Forest follies
*Pic: Image from Sarawak Report, here As you might know by now, I really did appreciate the former Resources Minister Paul Harriss....
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A letter to the PM …
Dear Prime Minister, RE: The establishment of a new Northern Tasmania institution of higher education and training A group of concerned citizens...
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The ‘disappointing’ Peter Rathjen …
*Pic: Peter Rathjen, Guy Green and Lton Mayor Albert van Zetten*Pic from HERE UNIVERSITY of Tasmania vice-chancellor Peter Rathjen, who earns over...
