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791Obama’s flexible fix to climate change as dirty power dominates in Oz
For many years I used to spend part of the summer in the gorgeous Laurentides region of Quebec, an hour west of...
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Why has Scandinavia got it right and we haven’t?
Recently I spent some time in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Apart from being mightily impressed by the scenery, natural and man-made, I...
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Increasingly, we can’t trust journalists to decipher finance
In the fallout of the 2008 global financial crisis, the financial media were criticised for failing to fulfil a watchdog role, for...
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Australia’s relentless corporate welfare to Malaysian logging company as new forest mill opens
*Pic: Ta Ann logging in Sarawak. Pic by Mattihias Klum Bob Brown Foundation’s Campaign Manager Jenny Weber has expressed alarm for Tasmania’s...
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Misconduct alleged at Senate inquiry into forestry investment schemes
*Pic: John Lawrence will be speaking at this forum on Sunday The chairman of a Senate inquiry into forestry managed investment schemes...
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But, Why?
MH370: Malaysian PM confirms Réunion debris is from missing flight First official confirmation that part of wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight, which...
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Nordic Model Sex Work
The recent article by Simone Watson of the Nordic Model Australia Coalition ( Tasmanian Times, 13 July 2015, Here and Here ),...
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Future of Carmichael mine hinges not on skinks or snakes, but its business case
Its potential environmental impact on vulnerable species has caused outrage, yet it is the fight to make the mine viable that may...
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How Groningen invented a cycling template for cities all over the world
In Groningen, an estimated 61% of all trips are made by bicycle. Photograph: Alamy Motorists woke up one mid-70s morning to find...
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Xenophobia is killing our Planet
Dying … humankind’s impact is everywhere … even in the ring-barked environment of suburbia … Xenophobia (both human and ecological) is raging...
