Tasmanian Times
Current Affairs
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954Call for Forestry Tasmania administrator as Lara, Julia hand over $34.5 million
Senator Bob Brown, Greens Leader: Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown says that while he is not privy to the legal or probity...
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Conroy flags super-regulator for media
COMMUNICATIONS Minister Stephen Conroy has floated the idea that a single regulator with stronger powers could police the media, while launching an...
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Milne: Mining versus the Tarkine
Senator MILNE (Tasmania—Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens) (14:22): My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water,...
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Gunns: No way to establish emails’ veracity. Les Baker: I wrote some; they are ancient history …
Department keeps Gunns legal advice under wraps Tasmania’s Environment Department is refusing to release Crown advice into why it is able to...
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DPIWE must explain decision to process dam permits. Second week in custody. Gunns’ End Game.
The Tasmanian Greens are calling on the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Energy to explain the basis for its decision...
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Ownership, privacy to be debated in media inquiry
The Gillard Government is expected to announce an inquiry into aspects of the media within days after a vigorous debate on ownership,...
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Gunns dam permit application is premature
The Tasmanian Greens today called for the Attorney General to seek legal advice regarding the status of Gunns Ltd’s dam permits in...
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Resurrection of the Ruddbot. No to offshore processing
REPLACING Julia Gillard with Kevin Rudd would take Labor from confronting a landslide defeat to a potentially election-winning position, according to an...
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Wilkie challenged to put up. The Wilkie response …
Denison MHR Andrew Wilkie’s warning (The Australian, 12/9/2011) that he will vote against any media inquiry which ‘smacks of politics’, smacks of...
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Decline of Tasmanian Devils opens the way for introduced predators
Devils have declined by 90% on the Freycinet Peninsula in Tasmania. The Devil facial tumour disease is a contagious cancer. This is...
