Tasmanian Times
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974STATE: 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...
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Spotted Handfish for Tasmanian animal emblem … ?
Matthew Groom (Minister for Environment, Parks and Heritage) reckons it would be a good idea to make the Tasmanian Devil the official...
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The ad Doritos doesn’t want you to see!
Watch here
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Bob Brown: Wilderness degradation should lead to unique label being dropped
*Pic: Wilderness photographer Rob Blakers’ classic shot of the Upper Florentine Forests (?) Jet skis to churn up Bathurst Harbour Elder environmentalist...
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Wilderness – going, going, gone!
Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife are on the verge of releasing their draft WHA (World Heritage Area) management plan, and it seems the...
