Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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846Climate change models underestimate likely temperature rise, report shows
Estelle Ross: Evening (cloud) reflections on the Tamar River … The Earth’s climate is far more sensitive to carbon dioxide emissions than...
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Fresh Thinking — For Our Grandchildren
The laws of physics tell us we can’t build a rocket that will travel faster than the speed of light, that gravity...
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Christmas Times (11). New Year Times (12)
Top three pictures, *Rob Walls: http://robertwalls.wordpress.com/ … and what will the New Year bring? *Rob Walls’ mountaintop shot is brimming with expectation...
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Grammar – A Selective Public High School
The public debate on education in Tasmania would appear to follow a tired pattern. A report is published somewhere identifying a subject...
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Martin Gilmour: Here is a quick lesson …
Martin Gilmour in the Sunday Examiner 22- 12- 2013 – under the spurious title “Whistle Blower” – proves that he is indeed...
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Why the Tasmanian Fox Eradication Program has been worse than a complete and utter failure
Summary: The 10-year fox eradication program has failed dismally because it was initiated as broadacre poisoning based on flawed data and the...
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Abbott breaks election promise on whales
The Abbott government has abandoned its pre-election promise to send a Customs vessel to monitor Japan’s illegal whaling in the Southern Ocean...
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Bushfires: Little pressure on the state government to show leadership
The Tasmanian Bushfires Inquiry Report The Tasmanian Bushfires Inquiry Report was released in early October and briefly enlivened the public debate about...
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Big Brother is watching … and disseminating your personal data …
Big Brother is on the prowl … quite apart from Edward Snowden’s (and the Guardian’s) consistent whistle-blowing on surveillance comes a first-hand...
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Atrophy
“Promote an expansion of the forest estate by integrating more trees onto agricultural land.” Martin Ferguson, December 2013, secret report commissioned by...
