Tasmanian Times
National
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1.5KPeck’s motion is ridiculous … and rejected
Dear Mayor and Aldermen, We believe Alderman Tony Peck’s motion to support the pulp mill exceeds his power and is outside councils...
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Democratic right to protest is not for sale
The Tasmanian Greens have called for a Tasmania Police proposal to charge protesters for costs to be rejected on the grounds that...
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The eye of the beholder
It is remarkable how differently people can interpret the same image. When Alan Duggan views Sam Rosewarne’s iconic photograph of the ‘conga...
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Health: Something has to give
The attached letter from the Federal Minister for Health, Nicola Roxon, came in response to our statement, circulated earlier (links below). It...
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Oz writer wins on animal ethics
CHRISTINE Jackman, senior writer with The Weekend Australian Magazine, last night won the print category of this year’s Voiceless Media Prize. Jackman...
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Why the mining boom should be slowed
This article in The Conversation today is a useful reply to Stephen Kirchner’s and to Peter McDonald’s argument that we need more...
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Now, do you understand economics?
Subject: European Economics – Want to understand the European and U.S. Economies?? Mary is the proprietor of a bar in Dublin. She...
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In China, the true cost of Britain’s clean, green wind power
Rusting pipelines meander for miles from factories processing rare earths in Baotou out to the man-made lake where, mixed with water, the...
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PM Gillard must intervene as Australia takes Durban to the gutter
Negotiations in Durban are in serious danger of breaking down completely as countries wrestle to weaken any outcomes and Australia is right...
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The extraordinary incompetence of Forestry Tasmania
The flogging of the radiata pine trees on State Forest in north-east Tasmania is another step in a long and sorry saga....
