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759Landowners might just Lock The Gate
The Tasmanian Greens today called on the Energy and Resources Minister to put a hold on the current application to explore for...
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Our fragile connection
We choose to live on an island. No-one forces us to. We make that choice, knowing that the isolation of being surrounded...
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Australian Greens invest in refugee safety
The Australian Greens have launched a new plan to give refugees a safer pathway to protection. The plan includes increasing the government’s...
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Meanwhile … just how long will it take to crack the Tassie Paradigm … ?
Guardian: Tasmania gambling on an uncertain economic future The Apple Isle is searching for answers to a record budget deficit and the...
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Butler approves Tarkine mine …
Federal Environment Minister Mark Butler has approved Shree Minerals’ mine in Tasmania’s Tarkine region. The initial approval for the $20 million project...
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He is the quintessential whistleblower
Today Bradley Manning, a whistleblower, was convicted by a military court at Fort Meade of 19 offences for supplying the press with...
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Environmentalists urge Rudd to scrap ‘failed’ forestry deal with states
A coalition of environment groups has urged the federal government to tear up its “failed” forestry deal with states, which they blame...
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It will be the fault of MLCs, not us, say activists. Fear of ‘Terrorism’
Huon Valley Environment Centre and Still Wild Still Threatened respond to the opinion of the Tasmanian Greens Leader that a moratorium on...
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Humanity is on a crash-course with carbon
Humanity is currently on course to double or even triple the carbon dioxide content of the Earth’s atmosphere by the end of...
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The cartel: law as business
This is the16th extract from Evan Whitton’s Our Corrupt Legal System, available free at netk.net.au/whittonhome.asp. Whitton is a legal historian, a trade...
