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3.1KBasslink: A short summary of risks … UPDATES …
*Pic: Hydro’s Gordon dam … When we had full dams … water pours over the Devil’s Gate dam … Hydro logo …...
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Tassie’s devastated World Heritage …
*Pics by Dan Broun. Dan’s Facebook page is: HERE THURSDAY February 11 … • Thom Mitchell, New Matilda: Tasmania’s Burning Peatlands Could...
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NATION, Philip Ruddock: Appointing a cigarette company CEO to champion health …
In appointing the flawed, deeply compromised, former Attorney General, counter-terror warrior, Philip Ruddock as his government’s special envoy for human rights to...
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Five arrests, thousands of dollars in fines and almost 50 notifications to “Move On”
Lapoinya Update Three weeks of peaceful protests on a daily basis has seen five arrests, thousands of dollars in fines and almost...
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Lapoinya: A slow walk …
A slow walk of destruction with three friends in the Lapoinya rainforest was not how my day was planned … but the...
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Flogging off the (dairy) farm to China …
The disappearance of five Hong Kong booksellers should be disturbing news for those who think that flogging off the (dairy) farm to...
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Why does international condemnation on human rights mean so little to Australia?
Australia’s human rights record is increasingly subject to international critique alongside pariah states like Saudi Arabia and North Korea. On the face...
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From Wet Sclerophyll to Dry Sclerophyll Forests …
*Pic: The Laser Ignition Cannon … and Evan Rolley in younger days … In January 2016 Tasmania was experiencing unprecedented climatic change...
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NATION: Turnbull has no time for democracy over GST
*Pic: ABC pic of PM Malcolm explaining … Friday afternoon, Malcolm Turnbull drops a bombshell. He intends to ignore the will of...
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Zero tolerance of fires in Australia: a new paradigm for want of new technology and tactics?
*Pic: Isla MacGregor’s superb picture from the top of Kunanyi (Mt Wellington) … view to Western fires area tonight (Friday January 22,...
