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Article
Your Say
Please read, and perhaps print out, Mr Michael Wright’s splendid Noise essay on ASDD at http://members.aol.com/mpwright9/noise5.html which I’ve brought to the attention...
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Article
Your Say
I am blessed in a world of four billion souls that I can drive the car for a short time and park...
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Environment
Your Say
Increasingly research is showing us that previously documented (albeit the research to produce the documentation was “limited”) safe pesticides are anything but...
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Article
Water, water … nowhere
Melbourne Water’s operations manager, John Woodland, says it would take seven or eight years of average rain to refill the Thomson dam,...
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Article
Bustline Theory
ECONOMIST George Taylor once observed that when hemlines went up, the economy was likely to follow in hot pursuit. But what are...
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Media
The FOI battle
Richard Aedy: Sometime in the next few days the Full Bench of the Federal Court will hand down its decision on an...
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Opinion
Terror in Zimbabwe
Dear Friends, I just received this letter which was emailed to me by an old friend from Adelaide who is now a...
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Forestry
Big Brother … and the pulp mill
BEFORE reality TV, George Orwell coined the phrase ‘Big Brother’ in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, first published in 1948. Nineteen Eighty-Four is...
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Article
The brutal stepfather
FOR ALLl the fun and freedom of my time at Hawley and Port Sorell, it was also a period which saw the...
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Article
The stench of ’89
IS TASMANIAN history repeating itself? 1989 saw a massive fight over a pulp mill. 1989 saw the end of an era —...
