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Forestry
Your Say: Highly offensive
Dear Senator Macdonald, I found your media release referring to people who are genuinely concerned about the consequencess of industrial clearfell conversion...
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Arts
Little Birdy: A eulogy
The Band: Little Birdy The Album: Big Big Love POPULAR music today seems so cynically driven by the bottom line. Slick producers,...
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Article
Bob grasps the nettle
LABOR’S Helen Polley came dressed for action in a smart red business suit, but it was a Green strategy that dominated much...
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Freeze frame
THE fruits of global warming The Tasmanian Fire Commission’s prediction of an early start to the fire season have some parallels in...
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Your Say
Dear Evan, I fell about laughing after I read your letter in The Mercury (Friday August 5). You do not seriously expect...
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Economy
Chips too dear: Price blamed for slump
TASMANIAN woodchips are becoming too expensive for the Japanese paper industry to buy, Australia’s leading forest products economist has warned. Robert Eastment,...
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Politics
Labor … and workers’ comp
ON 23rd November 2000 the then Minister for Infrastructure, Energy and Resources Mr Lennon proposed to the Tasmanian Parliament that there be...
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Article
Africa, Cry Africa
AFTER a year of familiarisation and training I was informed in December 1960 that I would be posted in April, 1961 as...
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956PoliticsBring it on. Please!
LET’S face it; whenever this Tasmanian House of Assembly general election is called, a whole bunch of Labor votes are going to...
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Article
Another Lennon lemon
THE list of Lennon-Bacon failures seems to just keep growing and the Government’s slick spin-doctoring machine can no longer paper over the...
