International

APRIN: The questions that must be answered

THIS WEEK, either Today or Wednesday, the Tasmanian State Government will decide how many millions of dollars they will loan to Aprin...

No Community Support for Forest Peace Agreement … and MLCs agree

Community group Friends of the Tamar Valley today rejected the ‘Kelty forest peace agreement’. “The community will never agree to a pulp...

Is the Gunns clock ticking?

GUNNS: It promises to be a very interesting week, this last of the financial year. It’s as if there has been a...

Bolivia moves to end dependence on foreign seed firms

Bolivian President Evo Morales, has signed a new law which aims to ensure food security for his country. Under the plan, state-owned...

Gunns: Vale Auspine

A history of Gunns undoubtedly will contain a chapter on the Auspine debacle, now edging closer to finality. The latest ASX announcement...

Why has Aprin got its hand out?

Here we go again. How many times are we supposed to compensate the industry and subsidise them for the same thing. The...

Dr Judith Ajani: The truth about the ‘mollycoddled’ forestry industry

Geraldine Doogue: But first to a bold challenge to one of our public industries. Get off the public purse once and for...

How to get your piece of the $2 billion pie

What really happened in the 1980s and where are we now?

From a personal perspective, the 1980s was an alarming decade. It was that time when our family sought to buy a small...

Nuclear power: “uneconomic and unnecessary”

For four decades we have known modern energy systems could threaten civilisation in two ways—climate change and nuclear proliferation—so we must reject...