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837Legislative Council holds Tasmania back. SA seizes the day
The Tasmanian Greens said that the Legislative Council had held Tasmania back and condemned itself to the wrong side of history by...
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Tasmania’s divisive timber mill project reduced the mighty Gunns to a pulp
THIS week’s announcement that Gunns, the timber company that once bestrode the forests and valleys of Tasmania like a brooding behemoth, had...
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The inaugural Bob Brown Foundation Environmentalist of the Year Jenny Webber
Picture: Matt Newton: http://www.matthewnewton.com.au/Commercial/People/1/ The Bob Brown Environmentalist of the Year ENVIRONMENT PRIZE WINNERS The Bob Brown Foundation today announced that its...
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The Silence of the Lambs
The sheep in Pakistan. Image: Animals Australia here Early in August, the Wellards ship Ocean Drover left Fremantle on a multi-port destination...
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In your dreams
There’s a reason the people in the ad used to say ‘not happy, Jan’. I spend a lot of my working week...
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Let us hope the days of the cargo cult are over
Pictures: Matt Newton http://www.matthewnewton.com.au/Commercial/People/1/ The story of Gunns is a parable of corporate hubris. You can, as they did, corrupt the polity,...
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Green split. Treachery, say Putt, Webber. SWST vow. TCA takes bat and ball
A split has emerged in environment groups over a letter supporting timber company Ta Ann. The Huon Valley Environment Centre says it...
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Campaign ups the ante on threats to World Heritage. Shoved aside
Pic: Nicole Anderson The Wilderness Society, Tarkine National Coalition and GetUp! joined forces today (Sat) in the campaign to protect the Tarkine...
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Liberals to thank for failed forestry schemes in wake of Gunns’ collapse
The Tasmanian rural landscape is now littered with hundreds of thousands of hectares of seemingly un-wanted Eucalyptus nitens thanks to the now...
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GUNNS: APPOINTMENT OF VOLUNTARY ADMINISTRATOR
A Matt Newton Picture Tribute … Gunns Ltd Company Announcement: http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20120925/pdf/428xy86t14lvj0.pdf • Matthew Denholm, The Australian: Gunns enters voluntary administration after $900m...
