Tasmanian Times
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1.1K‘The mountain that eats men alive’
Potosí, once one of the largest and richest cities in the world, has an incredible history. It is estimated that as many...
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The reason we grow trees for wood production
Reader responses to the many articles on TT regarding forestry, highlights to me the sad state of understanding in the community, AND...
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Carbon tax: A very great move in the teeth of the Big End of Town
This is a huge step forwards, and shows considerable dexterity in making it actually a positive for most Australians dollar wise. And...
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WORTH THE WAIT? A Look at the Auditor General’s review of Forestry Tasmania
What on earth was Auditor General Mike Blake doing? Three years after commencing his investigation into the Financial and Economic Performance of...
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The Inconvenient Truth: Forestry is in crisis
When Gunns – Australia’s biggest buyer of native forest wood – said ‘no more’, resistance abounded. Instead of grabbing the opportunity for...
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Ecological Forestry
In 2007 Mike Fay, a Wildlife Conservation Society and National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence decided to investigate how Earth’s tallest forests had been...
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Tasmania … and the Conquest of Australia
Well before 1820 the island was home to the majority of Australia’s sheep – in that year Van Diemen’s Land was also...
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Evil Genius? Do you reap all that you sow?
The News of the World is to close, James Murdoch has announced. It follows a series of revelations that the paper illegally...
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MPs attack Ludwig over rules
GOVERNMENT backbenchers have rubbished the resumption of live cattle exports to Indonesia because the new conditions do not require the stunning of...
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Hempcrete Ticks the Boxes
I recently downloaded a copy of the GREEN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT (GPP) PRODUCT SHEET, published by European Commission as a training kit for...
