Tasmanian Times
International
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836Marine extinction threat … as study sinks Libs’ tree-planting remedy
A high-level international workshop convened by International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) met at the University of Oxford earlier...
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Death threats for animal advocates
Animal advocates across Australia are still being targeted with death threats following the enormously successful rallies against live exports across the country...
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Contract signed to turn forests into pellets: Is this true?
Tasmanian Times has been told Austrian-based pulping/power generation expert Andritz has signed a contract with a Tasmanian government body – most likely...
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Keep our native forests open!
I design and make furniture and timber products. I sell them through the craft shops and galleries, such as here in Salamanca...
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43.7 million displaced: a reality beyond politics
Today is World Refugee Day and while we continue to bicker about a few thousand refugees arriving by boat to Australia, the...
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‘Get out of the way’
FOREST CONTRACTORS PUSH FOR FULL EXIT FUNDING OF BROKEN INDUSTRY Industry Reps and Liberals Need to Get Out of The Way and...
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Shut down this fundamentally broken, systemically cruel trade
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, introducing his Private Members Bill, the Live Animal Export Restriction and Prohibition Bill 2011. Mr...
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Forest contractors and workers face ruin if exit package thwarted
The Tasmanian Greens today called on the Liberals, Timber Community Association (TCA) and FIAT (Forest Industries Association Tasmania) to stop trying to...
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… paid-out contractors find fresh fields to clearfell, and …
Paid out, but logged in HANNAH MARTIN | June 19, 2011 12.01am UP to a third of the Tasmanian forest contractors who...
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… ground rules change to suit Forestry
On Friday 10th. June the Supreme Court in Launcestion handed down a judgement in favour of a couple who have been battling...
