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828Those South Pacific Cane Cutters
Last week SBS repeated a Doco on the White Australia policy. In it the Kanakas got a mention and that prompted me...
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Special timbers sector endangered by Tas Forestry IGA. Petition
Stakeholders of Tasmania’s valuable special timbers sector who are unhappy with the industry-destroying Tasmanian forestry Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) have the backing of...
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Tarkine: State must act
Picture: Nicole Anderson The Tasmanian Greens said the continual refusal by Federal Minister Tony Burke to move a National Heritage Listing for...
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Not only in Tassie
The sale of a timber mill in the south-west Western Australian town of Manjimup is taking longer than expected, frustrating the local...
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Obama: China reacts angrily. Watch Obama live
Picture, from HERE The first deployment of around 250 US Marines will be sent to the city of Darwin in Australia’s Northern...
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Is Gillard attempting to revive China free trade
With the increasing ascent of China and India as superpowers, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced a review of Australia’s place in...
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Tasmania’s forests vanish as logging continues
Tasmania’s grassroots environment groups have taken peaceful action today to highlight the ongoing loss of forests that should have been protected, after...
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Beauty … in the eye of Dr Amos
Former Forestry Industry Association of Tasmania (FIAT) chairman Dr Julian Amos clearly has scant respect for “every talking head (who) chants the...
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Forests for boiler fuel
The Tasmanian Greens today called on the Forestry Minister Bryan Green to rule out woodchips from high conservation value Tasmanian forests being...
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Lest We Forget: the need to morally justify Afghanistan
On Remembrance Day last Friday many of us paused for a moment’s reflection on the dreadful human cost of military conflict. The...
