Tasmanian Times
Sciences
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989Federal Hotels: the turning point?
The closure of the West Coast Wilderness Railway will have a devastating effect on West Coast tourism operators, none more so than...
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Pulp Friction – Fact not Fiction
In 2009, at the height of a passionate public debate on the merits or otherwise of a giant pulp-mill proposed for the...
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No basket-case: Tasmania on the bumpy road to economic sustainability
Is Tasmania at a tipping point? Over the next two weeks The Conversation, in conjunction with Griffith REVIEW and the University of...
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Guitar wood supplier predicts sound future
Tasmanian tonewood merchant Robert MacMillan has been in the media lately telling a good news story about the forest industry – a...
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Vandemonian Dreaming
Image: ‘Clydes Island’, an oil painting by Kim Peart, completed on Sunday 28th April 1996 in one of the old shops in...
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Earnest Thoughtful Men Who Have Discovered The Ultimate Technology
In four decades of debating energy issues I can’t avoid noticing one stand-out sociological phenomenon – for every possible energy source you...
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A Deeper Level of Denial
The denial of science can be seen among creationists, where belief is more valid than truth. In a similar way, the denial...
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Rising risk prices out new coal-fired plants: report
Australia is unlikely to build new baseload power stations burning coal because of tumbling prices for renewable energy and the rising cost...
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David Miliband to head global fight to prevent eco-disaster in oceans
As leader of a campaign being unveiled this week, the ex-foreign secretary says exploitation of the seas has led us to a...
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Solution to the Tasmanian Fox Saga
I am a field-zoologist and wildlife management consultant based in Melbourne. I am an active member of a Victorian country-based Fox-drive group...
