Tasmanian Times
National
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722Support local booksellers and publishers: Brown
Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown will today invite the Senate to support the Book Industry Strategy Group’s recommendation for books to be...
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Community calling for 40% reduction in Tasmania’s Climate Pollution by 2020
Community group Climate Action Hobart today delivered 200 letters, signed by members of the public attending the Sustainable Living Expo last weekend,...
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Observing Remembrance Day: a personal reflection
This morning – ‘at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month’ of this 11th year! – many of...
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Wilkinson fears panel bias
An Upper House MP has questioned how the partiality of the panel verifying which state forests will be reserved under the federally-funded...
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Triabunna lease dispute resolved
Conflict over the lease said to be holding up the re-opening of the Triabunna woodchip mill has been resolved. State-owned Tasports has...
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Report Finds Tasmania’s Marine Life Globally Significant
Picture: Geoff Rollins A new report titled “Nowhere Else on Earth: Tasmania’s Marine Natural Values” has for the first time, collated the...
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The best way to push bad policy is to wrap it in a ‘security’ blanket
These days, the surest way to gain acceptance for policy proposals that former Treasury Secretary Ken Henry might have called “frankly, bad”...
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Murdoch buries the lead as reshuffle has Hartigan bowing out at News Ltd
RUPERT Murdoch underplayed a key move of his own in his announcement that John Hartigan would step down as chairman and chief...
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Giant Freshwater Crayfish latest Forestry Tasmania collateral damage …
Experts fear a planned logging operation in Tasmania’s north-west threatens the survival of the Tasmanian giant freshwater lobster. A river system near...
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UK Olympic scandal with endangered Tassie timber
• The Independent, UK: So much for the ‘truly Green Games’: Olympic athletes to train on timber from ‘endangered’ forests Wood from...
