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796They intend to cut prices more …
Wesfarmers, owner of the Coles supermarket chain, last week announced a $2.26 billion net profit for 2012/13, aided by Coles’ contribution of...
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Saturday: Pre-election ban live exports rally
Animal activists have organised a mass public rally to be held on Saturday, August 24 at 1.00p.m. on Parliament Lawns in Hobart....
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The Great Political Myth
Political myths are flourishing in the hothouse of Australia’s federal election campaign. Perhaps the most pervasive is that coalition, alliance governments, or...
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Rec Fishers and Environmentalists Unite To Call For Super Trawler Permanent Ban
Recreational fishing and environment groups today joined together to call for a permanent ban on super trawlers in Australia’s waters. The new...
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Kill it, says Paul Harriss. Federal Labor’s ‘final betrayal’
Upper House MP Paul Harriss has tabled a motion in State Parliament to kill off the historic forest peace deal. Paul Harriss...
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Loosing the Dogs of Xenophobia
“Human beings in particular cannot be discarded. They remain in some way to haunt us.” (Christopher Koch, Out of Ireland, 1999) It’s...
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Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years’ jail for WikiLeaks data breach
Bradley Manning has been sentenced to 35 years in jail for giving WikiLeaks files that formed the biggest breach of official secrets...
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Tasmanian conservationists target Ta Ann on World Orangutan day. Ted Mead Picture Essay
Tasmanian conservationists marked the occasion of World Orangutan day today by demonstrating outside the head office of Ta Ann, a Sarawak logging...
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FSC in a Nutshell – FREE Stakeholder Engagement Information Sessions
We know that there is a significant amount of interest by stakeholders in Tasmania on all things FSC. We receive communications and...
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Attributions to climate change
Emeritus Professor Tony Eggleton from the Research school of Earth Sciences at the ANU in Canberra asks the question, what can be...
