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983TCT blast. White-out fears. Leadership for Lara. I will not be moved, says Julia
Statement from the Tasmanian Conservation Trust regarding the ‘Tasmanian Forest Agreement: Heads of Agreement’ The Tasmanian Conservation Trust Executive Council met this...
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Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual
In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets...
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Children abandoned in East Africa horror
Desperate Somali mothers are abandoning their dying children by the roadside as they travel to overwhelmed emergency food centres in drought-hit eastern...
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Go back to where you came from! Done deal
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has refused to rule out sending pregnant women and unaccompanied children to Malaysia under an asylum-seeker swap deal...
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High Farce
In September 1938 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew back to England brandishing an agreement and declaring “peace for our time”, oft...
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Green groups protest, Lara lashes Libs, Farmers wary
• Miranda Gibson: Still Wild Still Threatened Protesters abseil from Parliament House Canberra in a call for real forest protection. Two conservationists...
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$276M forests deal. Where to from here? The Naked Truth …
• MONDAY: • The Age: Tasmania in $274m forests deal • The Australian: Giddings faces Greens ire on forests package • Mercury:...
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You’ve got to be joking
Nostradamus with apologies I am extremely grateful for the feedback and encouragement I have received about my previous musings (HERE) and I...
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Fire and humans
Professor of Forest Ecology David Bowman from the University of Tasmania in Hobart, talks about human involvement with fire and its consequences....
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Plantations up in biomass smoke
EXCLUSIVE: Great Southern Plantations receiver McGrathNicol is under attack over the foreign sell-off of 252,000ha of farm land. And the chief executive...
