Tasmanian Times
Sciences
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The cost of wood …
HAKAN EKSTROM Wood costs were 53% of the total production costs for pulp mills worldwide in the 1Q/09, reports the Wood Resource...
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‘Trees of life’ are vital food source
MIRANDA SPITTELER The “famine food” of trees can keep drought-hit communities alive when all other food crops fail, says Miranda Spitteler. In...
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Depleted Uranium Ammunition in Afghan War: New Evidence
ICBUW A classified German Army manual has thrown doubt over US and UK assurances that no depleted uranium munitions have been used...
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The Parsons Climate Report
PHILL PARSONS The interactions between the broad elements that drive the earth’s climate are simple when taken one at a time but...
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How can it be said to be a university at all?
ROBERT SCOTNEY To Mr Academic in 10, Interesting how meaning mutates over time – to think of the “Left” being part of...
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Clive Hamilton: our parliament sabotages our future
CLIVE HAMILTON, Crikey, August 12 Most MPs are not party robots when they get elected, but the modern parliamentary system requires them...
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Gunns still in plantation contention
RACHEL WILLIAMS, Examiner TASMANIAN timber company Gunns remains in contention to secure a 100,000 hectare plantation estate from failed managed investment scheme...
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Community urges Prime Minister Rudd to commit to a stronger climate plan
HANNAH AULBY, Climate Action Hobart Local community climate group Climate Action Hobart today supported the Senate’s vote against the Federal Government’s Carbon...
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Compromising the Tarkine strategy
HELEN KEMPTON, Mercury TASMANIA needs to grow up and stop political agendas, an academic told a forum in Strahan yesterday. It was...
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Hobart: Shabby and directionless
TURNOFF THETELLY Absolutely Philip Lowe (3). Seems green snouts are every bit as keen to dig into the trough of public money...
