Tasmanian Times
Sciences
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918Gunns last days…?
The AFR reported last Thursday that Gunns was still trying to sell its remaining assets acquired as part of the Auspine purchase...
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Objects in the landscape …
While driving along this morning on my way to Exmouth (for some odd reason pronounced X-Mouth, not X-muth) I was listening to...
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’69 were taken by (feral) cats and only 11 per cent by foxes’
IT wasn’t long ago that many third-generation farmers on the West Australian wheatbelt had never heard of the brush-tailed bettong, more commonly...
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Population, Immigration and Citizenship, Week 15, 2011
Geoff Dickinson’s wonderful summation of worldwide links to articles and facts on population, immigration and citizenship. Download: 2011_Week_17_Population,_Immigration_and_Citizenship_20110430.doc
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Rainbow Warrior testing waters off Fukushima
Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior has begun radiation sampling to the south of the crisis-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex. Greenpeace submitted research plans...
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Arctic Melts
Together with Terry Callaghan, a researcher at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Margareta is the editor of the two chapters on...
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Maverick Cousins takes on Woodside
GEOFF Cousins — Telstra director, former advertising whiz and one-time confidant of John Howard — has made plenty of powerful enemies in...
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How science makes life difficult for regulators
There is a great deal of controversy and argument around whether or not the way chemicals are assessed for safety in the...
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Dear Mr Wilkinson
Here’s the letter I wrote in response to an article in the Forest Practices Authority newsletter, and the chairman’s initial response: Graham...
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A different educational disadvantage
“We want to make sure every child in every school gets a great education..” were the words of Prime Minister Julia Gillard...
