Tasmanian Times
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1.3KIs the thylacine still out there?
Tim Squires Illustration, here “Due to the similarly poor genetic diversity of the animals, this new data suggests that the genetic health...
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Ban health and climate-hazard forest burns. Four protest arrests
Pic: Matt Newton, http://www.matthewnewton.com.au/ Image here Huon Valley Environment Centre has today launched a campaign with a protest flare on Hobart’s Parliament...
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Greens cry wolf on Integrity Commission
Kim Booth has rightly questioned the Integrity Commissions inability to compel witness testimony and also states that; ‘It’s self evident that the...
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Last Roll of the Gunns’ Dice … as Pulp World burns
GUNNS has told investors to disregard financial information it has provided in recent months about the Bell Bay pulp mill. Rather, it...
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Trials aim to counter spraydrift. Dangers of woodsmoke
ONGOING spray drift complaints throughout South Australia have led to farmers being urged to use very coarse and extremely coarse droplets in...
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On your bike, Lara
The Labor-Green government can start making savings next month if it invests appropriately in bicycle facilities such as bike lanes and cycleways...
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What Tasmania does best …
“The CommSec State of the States report (CommSec home here, and Mercury report here) serves to underline how critical it is for...
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Observer Tree exposes baby devils in area threatened by logging
Pic: Alan Lesheim Miranda Gibson, Tasmania’s long-time treesitter in The Observer Tree (Miranda Gibson breaks Tasmanian tree-sitting record …) is today releasing...
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Forestry Tasmania … and The Yellow Brick Road
The main players in the saga of the Yellow Brick Road are denoted above, with Lara patting her pet, Bashful Bryan, while...
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More bizarre pulp mill land titles – the depth limitation
According to a title registered over the proposed Gunns Ltd Pulp Mill site, construction of the Longreach Pulp Mill associated water detention...
