Tasmanian Times
Sciences
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Wildlife care plan ruined by red tape and bungling
MATTHEW DENHOLM, The Australian, June 29 BUREAUCRATIC bungling scuttled a “visionary” plan, funded by Kathmandu clothing founder Jan Cameron, to create a...
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Weed-Whacking Herbicide Proves Deadly to Human Cells
SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM, June 23. Used in yards, farms and parks throughout the world, Roundup has long been a top-selling weed killer. But now...
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‘Pulp fiction’
KIM BOOTH, Greens pulp mill spokesperson The Tasmanian Greens today in Parliament continued to pressure the Bartlett government to come clean over...
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Meeting votes tell tale of two Timbercorps
AUSTRALIAN CREDITORS voted yesterday to wind up both Timbercorp and its subsidiary, Timbercorp Securities.The meetings in Melbourne were run by administrators KordaMentha,...
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Foxes: Dogs work better …
TONY PEACOCK, From personal experience, I know that a trained fox scat detecting dog is better at finding fox scats than me....
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Hawke’s Environmental Review must be heeded by Rudd
BOB BROWN, Australian Senate Leader of the Australian Greens Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown says today’s review of the nation’s environmental laws,...
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A first-class pulp operation being planned for northern Tasmania …
ROBERT GOTTLIEBSEN, Business Spectator: , 12:06 PM, 29 Jun 2009 Take away all the controversy and emotion and we have a first...
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Gunns ‘closer to joint venture partner’
ABC ONLINE The Tasmanian timber company Gunns has found a preferred joint venture partner to fund its controversial $2 billion pulp mill...
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Poll rejects pulp mill
BOB McMAHON, TAP Into A Better Tasmania Who is the government working for, foreign operatives or the Tasmanian public? “Federal Minister for...
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A serious breach of probity standards
GEOFFREY COUSINS, MR, June 28 There are serious probity issues arising from the Minister’s statement supporting the Gunns proposed pulp mill.To have...
