Tasmanian Times
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1.0KThe Pioneer Cup – Horse-trading for safe drinking water in Tasmania
What an unlikely trifecta of letter writers in last week’s North-Eastern Advertiser! Mike Brewster, CEO of TasWater; Michael Ferguson, Tasmania’s Minister for...
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FEA’s Receivers Deloitte has at last found a buyer for FEA’s land and trees
Resources Management Services LLC (RMS) a forestry investment manager from Alabama paid $125.5 million for land belonging to FEA and trees belonging...
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Vanuatu latest …
The United Nations has launched an urgent appeal for nearly 38 million dollars to help 166-thousand people in the Pacific archipelago after...
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University Stands up to Political Bullying
The attempt by Bass MHR Andrew Nikolic to silence Launceston academic Dr Michael Powell has been firmly rebuffed by the University of...
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Worse than the TPP? Defence pilloried
The Defence Trade Controls Amendment Bill 2015, expected to become law within weeks, regulates high-tech research and development in Australia … and...
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Specialty Timbers Scandal Lingers On
Trashing of the Tarkine forest primarily for woodchips has been going on for decades, and now Forestry Tas is claiming that some...
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Welcome ‘home’, Richard …
Flanagan greets his very special guests, Burma Railway veterans (average age 90) and mates of his dad Arch. Flanagan gave away part...
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No ‘Super Dump’ for Tasmania
*Pic: site of the dump Southern Beaches Conservation Society (SBCS) has always maintained that the Copping C Cell is a bad idea....
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BirdLife Tasmania calls for immediate cessation of logging of Swift Parrot habitat
BirdLife Tasmania calls for immediate up-listing of Swift Parrot, immediate cessation of logging of Swift Parrot habitat BirdLife Tasmania today called for...
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BirdLife Tasmania disgusted by 3-year olds being “licensed to kill”
BirdLife Tasmania today expressed its absolute disgust in response to the news that the Tasmanian Government issues “licences to kill” Short-tailed Shearwaters...
