Tasmanian Times
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910Is this responsible reporting?
The Examiner was great reading Tuesday morning for pulp mill buffs. A terrific front-page colour photograph of some yellow excavators in a...
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Fear, Inc.: America’s Islamophobia Network
At this time last year, as the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks approached, the country was gripped by a pernicious...
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Gillard calls; Australian sorry
THE alarm bells had been ringing in Julia Gillard’s office for days, but they really went shrill after the first of the...
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Generation F*cked
The UN’s first ever report on the state of childhood in the industrialized West made unpleasant reading for many of the world’s...
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Lies, promises and mandates
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott routinely denounces Prime Minister Julia Gillard as a liar. He does so with the tacit support, through failure...
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Public opinion and representative democracy
What role should public opinion play in the ultimate political resolution of such public policy debates as climate change, asylum-seekers, the war...
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Louisiana paper mill spill causes massive fish kill
(Reuters) – A rotten stench hung over a 60-mile stretch of Louisiana’s Pearl River as boats trawled through thick layers of hundreds...
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Africa’s Black Revolution
We recently paid a visit to David Guerena (PhD Candidate in soil science at Cornell University under Prof Johannes Lehmann) at his...
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States get a bigger say on the environment
The Gillard government has rolled out a business-friendly overhaul of national environment laws, boosting the states’ role in approving or rejecting controversial...
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The forest companies of the future
Over the past 150 years, industrialisation has taken its toll. All too often, forests have been sacrificed in the face of expanding...
