Tasmanian Times
National
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988NATION: The Lindt Chocolat Cafe siege. MYEFO
Sydney’s CBD is in lockdown as police negotiate with a gunman who stormed into the busy Lindt Chocolat Cafe in Martin Place...
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The Tragedy of the Commons
Open slather … Reopen track proponents Adam Brooks and Brett Whiteley during the 2013 Federal Election campaign. They are with now Education...
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A “lesson for the ages” from two Dead White Mediterranean Blokes
A prof named Greg from a place called the Gong advises Aussie Tony & Bill and Tassie’s Will & Bryan to read...
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Prince Cnut Defies the Waves of Reality
“Canute rebukes his courtiers” by Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville ~ 1835 – 1885. The Abbott Liberal Government became lambasted as climate change dinosaurs...
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (42)
The “Respect the Mountain” forum ( here, here, and here ) at the Hobart Town Hall earlier this year prompted Don Knowler...
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New resource on health threats posed by endocrine-disrupting chemicals
As governments, industry and public interest groups from across the globe prepare to meet next week to discuss endocrine-disrupting chemicals and other...
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Tarkine: International call to protect nation’s heritage
Part of the 1969 excavation of the Mt Cameron West site (near Marrawah) with the “sculptured” rock (right). Note the bare slab...
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A breach of competition policy? FLAG …
The Forestry Tasmania scrutiny hearing left no doubt that its survival depends on selling more native forest woodchips at higher prices. Filling...
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STATE: Royal Hobart Hospital Decision
The Liberal Government has accepted and will implement the recommendations of the Royal Hobart Hospital Redevelopment Rescue Taskforce for the project to...
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The Flan Man and Bob Graham give it all away …
Writing is often a penniless business, but two winners of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have given away their prize money to...
