Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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868What would be the effect on farmers if there was contamination of the water table … ?
Image from here One of the last projects agreed by the now departed Giddings government was awarding a licence for unconventional oil...
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (6)
Image from here: http://foxgully.wordpress.com/tag/environment/page/3/ The “Respect the Mountain” forum ( here, here, and here ) at the Hobart Town Hall last month...
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What is Organics?
Photo: Alastair Bett ( f8photography.com.au ). Read the original at organicgardener, here Let’s look at the basics of organic growing. Why is it...
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World’s Number 1 Herbicide Discovered in US Mothers’ Breast Milk
• Pilot study shows build-up of glyphosate herbicide in Mothers’ bodies • Urine testing shows glyphosate levels over 10 times higher than...
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A decent sawhorse …
It’s the time of year when our thoughts turn to firewood and, finding myself with lots of limbwood to cut to length,...
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Forests: Reality bites for Paul and Will …
• Eye of the storm … Resources Minister Paul Harriss with Premier Will Hodgman. Mr Harris is reported as saying the Liberal...
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Andrew Wilkie: The rebuild is a mess and the previous State Government misled the community
I share new Tasmanian Health Minister Michael Ferguson’s assessment that the situation with the rebuild of the Royal Hobart Hospital is “appalling.”...
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ABC: PM Abbott risks being branded a liar
“If Mr Abbott does not promptly deny reports that the Government plans to cut ABC funds he risks being branded a liar,”...
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Bob Carr diaries: foreign policy was subcontracted to Jewish donors
Ex-foreign minister casts light on support for Israel – and his obsession with diet and the indignities of businesss class travel Former...
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400,000 hectares of Tasmanian forests to be logged, not reserved
Quarantining Forestry Tasmania from managing the logging in the short term is a tricky attempt to secure FSC certification regardless The forest...
