Tasmanian Times
Sciences
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795Today: Findings of the George River Water Quality Panel
Findings of the George River Water Quality Panel The George River Water Quality Panel will today release its final report into water...
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‘Alderman Rejects massive rate rise’
Alderman Philip Cocker last night voted against significant rate rises put forward at Monday night’s council meeting. “I cannot support these rises...
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Carbon Breakdown
SMH political satirist Annabel Crabb coined the phrase “Ruddslide” to describe Kev07’s election win. Maybe it’s fair to say that his dismissal...
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Concrete cultures collapse forestry
After my response (1) to forestry professional Mark Poynter’s (MP) article (2) I was accused by him of being ‘one sided’ (i.e....
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High cost of power
The crux of the problem is that Aurora / Hydro / Transend do not have cost minimisation as an objective. A fortune...
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Disputed Pulp Mill to go Federal Again?
Community-based grassroots pulp mill campaigners Tasmanians Against the Pulp Mill (TAP) report that they have been shut out of negotiations between major...
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Equity and ecological sustainability rather than Corporation control
In this paper I put the case that problems about forest destruction, plantations and particularly monoculture plantations, and the search for sustainable...
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A new method of Labor rule
Here’s The Big Picture #86 which presents my article on forestry’s assault on Tasmanian communities, businesses and resources, and delivers the week’s...
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The Great Disruption
Sometimes the satirical newspaper The Onion is so right on, I can’t resist quoting from it. Consider this faux article from June...
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Rewards for reports of animal cruelty
BRENDAN TREMBATH: A new animal welfare organisation will pay farm workers to dob in businesses where chickens or pigs are cruelly treated....
