Tasmanian Times
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847Climate change models underestimate likely temperature rise, report shows
Estelle Ross: Evening (cloud) reflections on the Tamar River … The Earth’s climate is far more sensitive to carbon dioxide emissions than...
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Fresh Thinking — For Our Grandchildren
The laws of physics tell us we can’t build a rocket that will travel faster than the speed of light, that gravity...
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Potential bidders for Gunns get more time
KORDA MENTHA partner Bryan Webster has extended the deadline for expressions of interest in all or part of Gunns Group to the...
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Martin Gilmour: Here is a quick lesson …
Martin Gilmour in the Sunday Examiner 22- 12- 2013 – under the spurious title “Whistle Blower” – proves that he is indeed...
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The day Australia failed the test of the most basic common decency …
Picture from www.banliveexports.com Yesterday, December 13 2013, The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) granted a permit for 80,000 Australian sheep...
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Abbott breaks election promise on whales
The Abbott government has abandoned its pre-election promise to send a Customs vessel to monitor Japan’s illegal whaling in the Southern Ocean...
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Chile: The US billionaire who creates national parks
A US billionaire has donated 380 sq km (147 sq miles) of land to help create a new national park in the...
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Big Brother is watching … and disseminating your personal data …
Big Brother is on the prowl … quite apart from Edward Snowden’s (and the Guardian’s) consistent whistle-blowing on surveillance comes a first-hand...
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Atrophy
“Promote an expansion of the forest estate by integrating more trees onto agricultural land.” Martin Ferguson, December 2013, secret report commissioned by...
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Plantations: Economic reality and common sense
The way he was … Karl Goiser operating the gang frame saw in 1955 Politics aside, there is still the matter of...
