Tasmanian Times
International
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1.0KNATION: No roadmap on Manus for Turnbull
• Peter Martin, Economics Editor, The Age: Federal budget 2016: Tax cuts. $80,000 is anything but average If Scott Morrison thinks that...
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Precious Freshwater diverted to Aquaculture
Tasmania is in a period of historic drought. The Huon Aquaculture Company has a freshwater “flow-through” hatchery hidden away behind a stand...
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Let’s dare to talk about it … a message of hope
Forester, Speth, right, is interviewed on sustainability … The response to the “What nobody dares to say to you about climate change”...
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Surviving the Carbon Apocalypse
In 1968 the Earthrise image inspired a new generation of environmentalists to care about the Earth. In the same year Dr Peter...
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The Horror of 1080 Poison …
Photo of Makarora Penelope Marshall who lives in southern Tasmania is deeply concerned about 1080 poison, used in Tasmania to kill foxes...
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Sad Postscript to the Clearfelling of Lapoinya Forest. Meanwhile in Mutual Valley …
*Pic: Spot the eagle’s nest … After 20 months of research, negotiations, protests and pleas by the Lapoinya Community to reserve or...
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Donald Trump and the critique of liberalism …
*Pic: From Boohoo HERE, Trumpism: The Apprentice with the Golden Arse In my last article ( HERE ) on the phenomenon of...
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The mother of all coincidences
Warning: This article may contain traces of satire. Only one skyscraper in history has ever collapsed completely due to fire. Fires are...
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What nobody dares say to you about climate change …
*Pic: Nicole Anderson’s evocative pic of recent climate change-induced wildfires in the Tarkine. Nic says: ‘The eye is drawn simultaneously to everything...
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PNG gives middle finger to selfish Australian overlords … and good on them
In Australia, we thought we had found a “solution” to asylum seekers with our own tropical concentration camp on Manus. Not so,...
