Tasmanian Times
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812Study links wildfire smoke exposure to reduced immune system function
10-day episode of wildfire smoke in 2008 offers unexpected research opportunity Sacramento — An ARB-funded study at the California National Primate Research...
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Integrity comes from within – but it also needs to be seen from outside
I agree that Tasmania needs an independent watchdog. Only with an external independent perspective will it have the ability to challenge the...
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Nikolic’s meeting. Tony’s grand new plan to turn back the boats
• Friday: Update following this morning’s action, by Anne Layton-Bennett … I was one of a group of Launceston women who visited...
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Tasmania’s ban on genetically modified crops made indefinite in bid to protect clean, green brand
The Tasmanian Government has extended indefinitely the state’s moratorium on genetically modified crops and animals. The blanket ban on genetically modified organisms...
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Harpoon ship stopped. Harpoon ship poised. Fleet disarray. Whales killed inside sanctuary. Brett …
Nisshin Maru leaves the Antarctic Treaty Zone. Pic: Eliza Muirhead / Sea Shepherd Australia • UPDATE, January 9, PM: Harpoon ship stopped!...
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Running Ghost Tours in Tasmania?
Extant, Extinct or Eradicated? Does Tasmania’s economy depend on maintaining the existence of two mythic (cryptic) creatures? Over the past 70 years...
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Code Fail
All about Isaac Asimov, Wikipedia, here Bouncing around the Web in the first week of January were snippets from a 1964 article...
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When Justice loses its appeal
A murder conviction which eminent lawyers and legal experts say is quite possibly a gross miscarriage of justice has exposed serious deficiencies...
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Justification and excuse
Ideas matter; they shape the fate of individuals and the destiny of nations. Take John Howard’s alternative reason for the Iraq War...
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Abbott’s eco folly will cost us
HEARTACHE from the flooding of Lake Pedder in 1973 by a state government hell bent on development galvanised a global green movement...
