Tasmanian Times
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1.8KVested interests are undermining our democracy
Image: Thomas Cole, Course of Empire I am very privileged to be able to reply to the Governor-General’s speech. I am especially...
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Road to Utopia …
Sir Thomas More depicted an imaginary Island – Utopia – as enjoying a perfect social, legal and political system. Most Tasmanians however...
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What would be the effect on farmers if there was contamination of the water table … ?
Image from here One of the last projects agreed by the now departed Giddings government was awarding a licence for unconventional oil...
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What is Organics?
Photo: Alastair Bett ( f8photography.com.au ). Read the original at organicgardener, here Let’s look at the basics of organic growing. Why is it...
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World’s Number 1 Herbicide Discovered in US Mothers’ Breast Milk
• Pilot study shows build-up of glyphosate herbicide in Mothers’ bodies • Urine testing shows glyphosate levels over 10 times higher than...
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Macquarie Island declared pest free after 7-year eradication program
The World Heritage-listed Macquarie Island has been declared free of pests after a near seven-year campaign to eradicate it of rats, rabbits...
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Forests: Reality bites for Paul and Will …
• Eye of the storm … Resources Minister Paul Harriss with Premier Will Hodgman. Mr Harris is reported as saying the Liberal...
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Japanese whalers plan return to hunt. Abbott turns a blind eye.
Senator Peter Whish-Wilson responds to the news that Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research has used court proceedings in the United States against...
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Tasmanian tiger’s ancient relative a fearsome killer
Nimbacinus dicksoni (left) and the Tasmanian tiger (right) The grainy black and white images linger in the memory, a strange long jawed...
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400,000 hectares of Tasmanian forests to be logged, not reserved
Quarantining Forestry Tasmania from managing the logging in the short term is a tricky attempt to secure FSC certification regardless The forest...
