Tasmanian Times
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739Dear Mayor Coad …
Bcc neighbours and interested parties Dear Mayor Coad – I need your assistance please, I have today attempted to understand from Council...
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Fossil Free Protestors Expect Meaningful Negotiations are Imminent
Fossil Free UTAS are ending their occupation of the Vice Chancellor’s Building today, after a marathon two-week sit-in. The protestors believe that...
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Pioneer folk wonder if TasWater’s WorkSafe Tasmania Award is a joke …
On the eve of Pioneer’s third ‘anniversary’ living with lead-contaminated drinking water, TasWater pockets the WorkSafe Tasmania Award (and $5000, TT here:...
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Palm oil, pollution and pyro-politics
*Pic: Figure 1. Borneo, in a non El Nino year: The skies over Putusibau, West Kalimantan, 28 October 2014. Another smokey morning...
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Tarkine Vandalism: More Forestry Untruths Exposed …
For almost half a century Tasmanians have heard little variation to the monotonous theme that woodchipping is merely cleaning up the logging...
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NATION, Turnbull: ‘Small L’ Liberal Or Planet-Eating Death Star … ? Amnesty, Abyan
*Pic: Original image: Serious Cat, Flickr Early indications from the Turnbull Government Next week, Malcolm Turnbull will clock up six weeks as...
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26 bankers already sentenced to a combined 74 years in prison
In two separate rulings last week, the Supreme Court of Iceland and the Reykjavík District Court sentenced three top managers of Landsbankinn...
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Diesel exhaust alters half of flower scents honey bees use to find food
One of the reasons given for the substantial decline of pollinators in many parts of the world – along with habitat loss,...
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Will Space Miners Save the Earth?
*Image from here: http://factor-tech.com/connected-world/19671-burning-our-remaining-fossil-fuels-will-prompt-60-meter-sea-level-rises-scientists/ After deciding to move to the historic town of Ross in Tasmania, we have made the migration south...
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Hundreds without life savings. Burning-off’s limits. ‘Another handout for Forestry …’
Initially billed as low-risk investments, failed timber and agri-business schemes around the country have now cost thousands of Australian investors their life...
