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Environment
Gunns threatened by forests
Michael West The Age Unfortunately, credit markets iced over last year and pulp mill politics deteriorated. Questions arose over financing (ANZ was...
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Forestry
A vote against Gunns
Mike Bolan Well, the market has voted against Gunns. Here’s the math (as best I can figure it) … Gunns has about...
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Democracy Tasmania
There must be an unfettered Commission of Inquiry
Lindsay Tuffin Tasmania needs a commission of inquiry into the relationship between the Tasmanian forest industry and the Tasmanian Government. But not...
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Democracy Tasmania
Flanagan’s call for a Royal Commission
Richard Flanagan Acceptance speech of the Victorian Premier’s Award for Best Journalism, for Flanagan’s Gunns: Out of Control, published in the The...
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Environment
Raverty’s call for a Royal Commission
Rick Pilkington Warwick Raverty later argued that he would ‘welcome a criminal justice commission, or royal commission’ and ‘was pretty sure that...
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Democracy Tasmania
Faith restored, says Bartlett
Damien Brown Mercury PREMIER David Bartlett believes he has restored public faith in the State Government as he prepares to mark 100...
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Article
World class hope for new museum
Damien Brown Mercury A MASSIVELY reshaped Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery had the potential to be a world leader, one of the...
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Environment
Logging contractors exploited
Nick Clark Mercury CONTRACTORS are being exploited by the forestry industry, a new study shows. But exploitation of contractors over a prolonged...
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Forestry
Name your price for Gunns
BusinessSpectator THE three joint lead managers of the long awaited Gunns equity raising, which will seek up to $430 million, are being...
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Health
Hospital siting nonsense
Mrs Fastbucks GIVEN THE example of the Beaconsfield mine disaster and geotechnical warnings about rock instability it beggars belief that Premier Bartlett...
