Tasmanian Times
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746Jubilant Palestinians mob Gaza streets
Image: Karl Stevens GAZA, Nov 21 (Reuters) – With gunshots, sweets and cries of victory, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip poured into...
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Country sawmills go without while whole logs go to waste on Burnie wharf
Photograph taken on Burnie wharf, November 2012: Logs destroyed from sitting around with nowhere to go Photograph taken on Burnie wharf, November...
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Sarawak NGOs aim to ‘pressure’ Aussie govt
Several Sarawak NGOs are collectively seeking to rope in their counterparts in Tasmania to help fight against the construction of more dams...
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Jose Mujica: The world’s ‘poorest’ president
It’s a common grumble that politicians’ lifestyles are far removed from those of their electorate. Not so in Uruguay. Meet the president...
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Margiris/Abel Tasman: Minister Burke must implement promised two-year ban … and he has!
The Tasmanian Greens today joined with Tasmanian fisherman to call on the Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, to keep his commitment to...
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Unmourned death of a sole survivor
In late August 2009 a tiny, solitary bat fluttered about in the rainforest near Australia’s infamous Christmas Island detention camp. We don’t...
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World Bank’s devastating climate science warning should be stop sign for coal and gas dash
A new report for the World Bank by leading climate scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, concluding that the...
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Rafferty Rules: The Incredible FT Saga. Crikey: The forestry con job … and response
Survivors … Forestry chiefs Minister Green (right) and Bob Gordon On 1 October this year the ABC reported that 22,000ha of the...
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‘Hydro Tasmania out of Sarawak – Save Sarawak Rivers’ tour announced
A coalition of environmental and social justice groups today have announced dates for an Australian tour to educate people about Hydro Tasmania’s...
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Markets For Change Appoints Peg Putt as CEO, and Bob Brown joins Board of Directors
Markets For Change is pleased to announce, both the appointment of Peg Putt as its new CEO, and that Bob Brown has...
