Tasmanian Times
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679Cat control urgently needed
The Tasmanian Greens today called on the Minister for Primary Industries, Bryan Green, to include provision for proclamation of the long delayed...
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Bob Brown faces privileges committee inquiry over Wotif donor
GREENS Leader Bob Brown faces a possible investigation by the Senate’s powerful privileges committee over an allegation he used his parliamentary position...
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Expert predicts new mining in the Tarkine could result in a tenfold increase in Devil roadkill
In a report in the Canberra Times, former UTAS environmental scientist Professor Hamish McCallum has suggested that roading for new mining could...
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John Gay charged
• Ed: TT regrets that it has had to withdraw comments on this article. The flood of comments suddenly received all indicate...
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Time running out for the Tarkine: Emergency Heritage Listing vital
The Greens will (today) move in the Senate to call on the Minister for the Environment to immediately include the Tarkine on...
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Answers needed on FT’s publicly-subsidised plantations
The Tasmanian Greens today (Mon) reiterated their call for the Forestry Minister Bryan Green MP to detail the extent of the publicly-subsidised...
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Wilkie wins fairer deal for miners and will support MRRT
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, will support the MRRT after securing a better deal for small miners. “Although I would...
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Forget NIMBY—the new battle cry is ‘Not On Our Planet’
My very favorite piece of punditry about the Keystone XL pipeline appeared the day after President Obama sent it back for more...
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Crying ‘Fox’ too often…
Tell a story often enough and people begin to believe it. In June 2002 David Llewellyn resurrected a conspiracy theory covered by...
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Looking forward to a smoking ban on the route of the Tour De France?
The unremarked passage of the Tasmanian Public Health Amendment Bill 2011. This week was a noteworthy one for reform of tobacco regulation...
