Tasmanian Times
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668Wilkie wins fairer deal for miners and will support MRRT
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, will support the MRRT after securing a better deal for small miners. “Although I would...
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Parliament has a duty to protect children from junk food ads: Brown
The Australian Greens will introduce new legislation today to protect children from junk food advertising, after the Gillard Government and the Opposition...
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Cry for Freedom from the Heart of West Papua
Thousands of West Papuans march through Jayapura, defying the Indonesian police and military, risking death to call for the freedom, as the...
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Crying ‘Fox’ too often…
Tell a story often enough and people begin to believe it. In June 2002 David Llewellyn resurrected a conspiracy theory covered by...
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Looking forward to a smoking ban on the route of the Tour De France?
The unremarked passage of the Tasmanian Public Health Amendment Bill 2011. This week was a noteworthy one for reform of tobacco regulation...
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Thousands Urge EPA to Discount Flawed Science on Syngenta’s Atrazine
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–November 14 – As EPA reconsiders the science on atrazine, new findings highlight the link between low-level exposure to the nation’s most...
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Those South Pacific Cane Cutters
Last week SBS repeated a Doco on the White Australia policy. In it the Kanakas got a mention and that prompted me...
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McKim’s Federal bid? Power and pain of being Green
NICK McKim, the Tasmanian Greens leader and the nation’s first Greens cabinet minister — has flagged a potential move into federal politics,...
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Special timbers sector endangered by Tas Forestry IGA. Petition
Stakeholders of Tasmania’s valuable special timbers sector who are unhappy with the industry-destroying Tasmanian forestry Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) have the backing of...
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Tarkine: State must act
Picture: Nicole Anderson The Tasmanian Greens said the continual refusal by Federal Minister Tony Burke to move a National Heritage Listing for...
