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Julius Caesar and the need to save the Upper Florentine

Thank you for the opportunity to help launch this wonderful book. Anyone who visits the Upper Florentine is immediately struck by the...

Gunns: Up the Tamar without a paddle

I suggest that Gunns are up the Tamar without a paddle and I paint this possible scenario. The ANZ will not lend...

Forestry MIS teat milks 77 per cent; Farmers 7 per cent

HARDWOOD forestry managed investment schemes received tax-based subsidies of between $900 million and $1.2 billion in the five years to 2008, according...

Worst cancer death rate in the Commonwealth

Tasmania has just recorded the worst cancer incidence and the worst cancer death rate in the Australian Commonwealth. [Sunday Tasmanian newspaper, 7...

Economic Assessment of the Gunns Pulp Mill 2004-2008

School of Economics and Finance Discussion Paper 2010-01 Abstract This paper outlines the process for evaluating the economic effects of Gunns proposed...

Foxes: Fantastic feral evaders

Tasmania’s foxes are truly extraordinary feral creatures. According to our public officials they are have been categorically seen on many thousands of...

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… But Bartlett won’t rule it out …

The Tasmanian Premier is refusing to say whether he would allow Gunns to build its pulp mill pipeline on public land. Compulsory...

It’s theft, says TAP