Sciences

The Coalition’s War on Science

Friday, November 20, 2009 The origins of the chaos in the Coalition parties over climate change go back at least two decades...

Slash and burn

QAT is concerned that such old growth logging “requires burning” the residue according to forestry. Sustainable forest management selectively logs the largest...

Presentation of the Wildcare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize at Fullers Bookshop, 6pm tonight.

At 6pm tonight Peter Grant, essayist and nature writer and co-founder of the Wildcare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize, will formally award Maureen...

Physical education not a priority for Labor

I find it extremely concerning that the Crawford Report identifies that not enough Australian schools have compulsory and daily physical education in...

Labor determined to hurt Tasmanian students with Youth Allowance reform

Early this week the Senate passed Coalition amendments to Youth Allowance, which would allow students in regional and rural Tasmania to access...

Gunns poised to acquire Great Southern

TASMANIA IN SECOND PLACE ON WORLD LIST OF EMERGING GAY TRAVEL DESTINATIONS

Tasmania has claimed second spot in a list of the world’s top ten emerging gay travel destinations. The list, compiled by Hotel...

PARLIAMENT SUPPORTS CANAL ESTATE BAN INVESTIGATION

Download pdf version at: http://www.saveralphsbay.org/pdf/SRBMedia20Nov09.pdf “Once again, it has been made clear that there is very little support for canal estate developments...

Ridout and Wong climate hypocrisy

Canberra, Friday 20 November 2009 Heather Ridout and Penny Wong have this morning demonstrated the wilful ignorance, deliberate misrepresentation and deep-seated hypocrisy...