Tasmanian Times
National
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2.0KMartin Gilmour: Here is a quick lesson …
Martin Gilmour in the Sunday Examiner 22- 12- 2013 – under the spurious title “Whistle Blower” – proves that he is indeed...
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The day Australia failed the test of the most basic common decency …
Picture from www.banliveexports.com Yesterday, December 13 2013, The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) granted a permit for 80,000 Australian sheep...
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Why the Tasmanian Fox Eradication Program has been worse than a complete and utter failure
Summary: The 10-year fox eradication program has failed dismally because it was initiated as broadacre poisoning based on flawed data and the...
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Abbott breaks election promise on whales
The Abbott government has abandoned its pre-election promise to send a Customs vessel to monitor Japan’s illegal whaling in the Southern Ocean...
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Big Brother is watching … and disseminating your personal data …
Big Brother is on the prowl … quite apart from Edward Snowden’s (and the Guardian’s) consistent whistle-blowing on surveillance comes a first-hand...
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Atrophy
“Promote an expansion of the forest estate by integrating more trees onto agricultural land.” Martin Ferguson, December 2013, secret report commissioned by...
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Plantations: Economic reality and common sense
The way he was … Karl Goiser operating the gang frame saw in 1955 Politics aside, there is still the matter of...
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I didn’t do it, I wasn’t there
In 1984, Derek Bromley was convicted of murder on the say of a schizophrenic and disputed forensic evidence. Now, his appeal may...
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New Reserves Show Forest Agreement Delivering
Environment signatories have today welcomed the Tasmanian Government’s gazettal of the first stage of reserves passed by the Tasmanian Parliament in September,...
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2013 Review of the Moratorium on GMOs in Tasmania
Background to the Review Since 2001 Tasmania has had a moratorium on the use of GMOs in primary industries for marketing purposes....
