Tasmanian Times
National
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813Paper Mill Upsets Baikalsk’s Hopes for Strawberries and Skis
BAIKALSK, Irkurtsk Region — Baikalsk, a town of 15,000 located on the shore of the famed Lake Baikal, is haunted by two...
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Forestry Smoke … not a good start for David O’Byrne
In Budget Estimates recently David O’Byrne MP, was reported in Hansard as saying the acknowledged dangerous levels of forestry smoke earlier this...
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Bookies buying into climate change race
Is climate change “crap”, as Tony Abbott once reportedly said? We’ve heard complex arguments from scientists armed with graphs and pie charts....
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Cities for living not roads
Alderman Philip Cocker today called on the State and Federal Governments to stop wasting vast amounts of money on road works and...
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Gillard poised for major forests statement …
A NEW-FOUND pragmatism forced by economic downturn, public pressure and high-stakes politics has entered the previously hardcore centre of Tasmania’s forest industry....
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‘Don’t lock up refugees in Tasmania’
Socialist Alliance candidate for Denison, Mel Barnes, agrees with Kevin Harkins suggestion to bring refugees to Tasmania. However under one of his...
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Gillard’s Mission Improbable
Julia Gillard dived straight into a political minefield, write Phillip Coorey and Damien Murphy. As Mark Arbib and Bill Shorten were urging...
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Federal Labor’s support for Hobart rail welcome
The Hobart Northern Suburbs Rail Action Group today thanked outgoing Federal Member for Denison Duncan Kerr SC MP for his tremendous personal...
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Tas ‘green tick’ a forestry first
The owner of Australia’s first internationally-endorsed native timber property says he has balanced conservation and timber production. Peter Downie’s property in Tasmania’s...
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Farms snub fox bait layers
LAND owners are fighting plans to lay 1080 fox baits on land in one of Tasmania’s last healthy Tasmanian devil strongholds. The...
