Tasmanian Times
National
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803There’s more to the Tasmanian forestry issue than its ailing industry
Tasmania’s forestry crisis is currently receiving plenty of media attention. Few people will dispute the state needs a forestry industry, but times...
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Forestry Deals without reforms to plantations chemical use unacceptable
TPEHN remains concerned that the Forest Principle related to Plantations remains a vague motherhood statement which has yet to be clarified. Plantations:...
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Conservationists shut down Harvey Norman outlet in Nowra
Where: 193 Princes Highway, South Nowra When: from 7am This morning 12 conservationists have shut down the Harvey Norman store in Nowra....
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What Tony said
TRANSCRIPT OF THE HON. TONY ABBOTT MHR JOINT DOORSTOP INTERVIEW WITH SENATOR THE HON RICHARD COLBECK, SHADOW PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY FOR FISHERIES AND...
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Compo, buy-back: Deal today? Nope!
A funding agreement on Tasmania’s forests peace deal could be imminent. Timber industry groups are stating their demands as the Federal Environment...
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Draft Agricultural Chemicals Regulations too weak
Peter McGlone, Director, Tasmanian Conservation Trust Draft Agricultural Chemicals Regulations too weak The public comment period for the draft ‘Agricultural and Veterinary...
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Simply reckless
This could go viral but is ‘Ziggy Switkowski’ a pseudonym for climate change denier Lord Monkton? Writing for that bastion of fair...
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Go back to where you came from! Done deal?
Fresh protests have broken out at two immigration detention centres as it emerged a refugee swap deal between Australia and Malaysia is...
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Commonwealth moves to seize Hicks royalties
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions has begun legal action to seize the proceeds of former Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks’ memoirs....
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This Soap Opera: The Abusive Minority of the Powerful
I inherited my affection for trashy magazines and TV soap operas from my paternal grandmother. The women in my mother’s family had...
