Tasmanian Times
Opinion
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1.1KHydro Tasmania: The fall guy?
Imagine a company taking over another company with a book value of $89 million ($346 million worth of assets less $257 million...
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Australia: Climate laggard lashed. Al Gore responds to Tony …
Pic: Looking towards Blackheath from Katoomba; https://twitter.com/workmanalice • The Age: Clear link between climate change and bushfires: UN adviser warns Tony Abbott...
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Advocates call for Upper House to act on marriage law …
In the wake of same-sex marriage legislation in the ACT, Tasmanian marriage equality advocates have called on the state Upper House to...
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The Universal Threat: Believists!
There are abundant social problems facing civilization today. Except for earthquakes and meteorites, these dilemmas are human-made. Perhaps we could add the...
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The crucial Tasmanian vote: Supporters in new push for scaled back Antarctic reserve
A bloc of countries has issued a joint call for the creation of marine reserves in Antarctica. The group, which includes the...
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‘Illegal’ label lashed
• The Guardian: Scott Morrison defends decision to call asylum seekers ‘illegals’ Immigration Minister Scott Morrison says he is simply calling “a...
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Adam Bandt … and ‘the great moral challenge of our generation’
• This picture and many others, from here Greens MP Adam Bandt has defended suggesting the coalition government’s climate change strategy could...
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Beautiful Tasmania and a Sublime mountain
Gwenda Sheridan – who completed a 5-volume research study in 2010 on Mount Wellington’s historic landscape values for the Wellington Park Trust...
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From Green Warriors to Greenwashers
When Greenpeace emerged as an international organization in the 1970s, it embodied a spirit of courageous protest by activists who were willing...
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eBay Founder Commits $250m to New Media Venture with Glenn Greenwald
More shocks for dead-tree media Pierre Omidyar says decision to set up news organisation fuelled by ‘concern about press freedoms in the...
