Tasmanian Times
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837Sea Shepherd backs World Court action to protect whales
Legal proceedings will begin at the International Court of Justice in The Hague next Wednesday 26th June, as the Australian Government presents...
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Salmon farming taking toll on marine wildlife
The Tasmanian Greens today expressed concern over a media report ( Matthew Denholm, The Australian: Tasmania’s salmon trade casts deadly net )...
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Just breathtaking incompetence …
• Kim Booth, Greens Forestry Spokesperson, Thursday, June 20: GROUNDHOG DAY FOR BUNGLED FOREST EXIT PAYMENTS State Inquiry to Pursue More Answers...
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Bringing back the supertrawler … ?
Voting for a Coalition Government risks bringing back the Supertrawler and ending new funding for independent science in the Small Pelagic Fishery....
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Hobart and Douglas Mawson: A Love Story
Hobart’s waterfront is increasingly becoming a puzzling site, filled with ice-skating rinks, plastic penguins, swarms of car-parking spaces and soon, a replica...
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The Most Trustworthy …
Each year, Readers Digest ( http://www.readersdigest.com.au/most-trusted-professions-2013 Ed: politicians are second last, below sex workers; journos just above ) reviews Australia’s most trusted...
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Doing the Climate Maths with Bill McKibben
Prominent American climate change activist and author Bill McKibben recently visited Australia on his ‘Do the Maths’ tour. The ‘Do the Maths’...
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Tasmanian forestry contractors using loophole to continue work after being paid to leave industry
A Senate inquiry has heard extraordinary allegations that Tasmanian forestry contractors who were paid by the Government to leave the industry are...
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Libs’ plan for logging, mining, grazing and shooting in national parks
The Tasmanian Greens Leader Nick McKim MP today condemned the Tasmanian Liberal Party for refusing to rule out allowing mining, logging, grazing...
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Guns and Solar
• Out carousing the other night I chanced upon One-Who-Appears-To-Know who had an interesting question. To whit: How come there have been...
