Tasmanian Times
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723Nyrstar and State Government in talks over ‘hand-up financing’
A $500 million deal between the South Australian Government and minerals giant Nyrstar appears to be a catalyst for the company’s approach...
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Fact-Checking Julia Jabour and Indi Hodgson-Johnston
*Pic: The Bob Barker pursues the illegally-fishing Thunder through a gale … The Sam Simon has collected more than 60km of net...
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Ongoing Salmon Expansion Threatens Endangered Whales and Puts Locals Offside
ABC reporter Conor Duffy’s picture of a salmon farm in southern Tasmania Recreational fishers, yachties, conservationists and locals are alarmed that Tassal...
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Why is there no one interested in coming to this place … ?
I recently took three tours of Chinese business people around some parts of the state that are for sale. I was told...
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STATE: The Irony; France, Tasmania … and Freedom of Speech
The Editor Dear Sir RE: FREEDOM OF SPEECH It is ironic that at the same time there are mass demonstrations in France...
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Spinners who would sell their own grandmothers …
*Pic: PM Abbott and Nodders … this time including Liberal Bass MP Andrew Nicolic, a high-viz gentleman and in the background now-state...
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Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction. 2014 the hottest year on record …
A team of scientists, in a groundbreaking analysis of data from hundreds of sources, has concluded that humans are on the verge...
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90% of submissions to Tasmanian fracking review say No!
The vast majority of those who wrote submissions to the government review on fracking in Tasmania sounded a loud and clear ‘No’...
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Fox Scientists: Both Sides Stumped?
PREAMBLE: Officially, the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre (IA-CRC), has seemed unwilling to consider that fox scats, imported from the mainland for...
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (46)
Vern Hansson’s amazing picture of a black-headed honeyeater feeding a pallid cuckoo … The “Respect the Mountain” forum ( here, here, and...
