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Economy
Whatever happened to the productivity revolution
Saul Eslake The second possibility is suggested by the torrent of productivity-stifling legislation and regulation imposed during the current decade with the...
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Environment
Beware the backlash
TCT, Save Ralphs Bay Press Release The debacle over Julian Green and Dr Warwick Raverty’s resignations from the Resource Planning and Development...
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Politics
NOW: Tasmania’s 10 worst decisions
Tasmanian Times Billion-dollar Bacon-Lennon. Some observers say it’s that bad … that the stewardship of the vaunted Labor administration which dawned over...
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Politics
THEN: Tasmania’s 10 worst decisions
Tasmanian Times On Sunday, October 27, 1996, The Sunday Tasmanian published Mercury and Suntas Chief Political Writer Michael Lester’s analysis of Tasmania’s...
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Environment
The green wash
Natasha Cica Everybody wants to be green in the new political environmentIF THERE is one immutable truth about Canberra, it is that...
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Environment
Dear Mr Llewellyn
Alison Bleaney To be frank, I am disappointed but not surprised by your response. However it is disconcerting that in Tasmania, the...
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Environment
A genuine timber industry
Frank Nicklason George Harris wrongly suggests that I “don’t like native forest harvesting”. I have no idea at all where he got...
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1.7KSocietyStorm Bay to come home
Lois Ryan Australian Wooden Boat Festival The iconic southern Tasmanian fishing smack, Storm Bay will return to Hobart for the first time...
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Environment
The destruction of our farms
Bob Loone Plantation forestry as practiced in Tasmania is unsustainable. The high nutrient requirement results in the soil becoming depleted of its...
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Environment
Trouble at the mill (Part 2)
Mike Bolan How would you feel about anti-terror guidelines? A ‘world scale’ pulp mill introduces resource depletion, infrastructure damage, health and environmental...
