Tasmanian Times
National
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Tasmanians to protest Rudds treatment of Refugees
Resistance and the Socialist Alliance have called on those concerned with the Rudd Governments treatment to come to a speak-out to call...
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State and Federal Labor fail Tassie’s storm-affected dairy farmers
State and Federal Labor have failed Tasmania’s battling dairy farmers, Tasmanian Liberal Senator and Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry...
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PULP DEBATE AXING SYMPTOM OF UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIP
The axing of the pulp mill debate in parliament last night, was a symptom of an ongoing unhealthy relationship between timber companies...
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Rudd must share blame if Copenhagen fails, but lifting his targets could help broker agreement
With growing resignation among global leaders that the Copenhagen Conference will deliver no more than another non-binding ‘political agreement’, Kevin Rudd, Penny...
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PULP MILL AMENDMENT BILL DEBATE GAGGED
Labor Sticks to Lennon-esque Script www.tas.greens.org.au The Tasmanian Greens today condemned the Bartlett government for guillotining debate on the controversial Pulp Mill...
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Forestry sawmill takeover …
Forestry Tasmania has recently bought and taken over a local sawmill that went down the gurgler. He lost his home and his...
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941Democracy Tas-style: Party before Principle
My October article concluded with the rhetorical question: “Whither goest democracy in Tasmania?” The question arose from a number of ‘findings’ in...
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Mill debate gag: Bartlett “a fraud and a charlatan”
THE State Government last night “guillotined” debate on new laws giving Gunns two more years to start building its Tamar Valley pulp...
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I certainly can see the benefit of storing carbon in solid products
The positions of P.M. Roberts and myself may well be reconcilable. (Letters 5/11). I certainly can see the benefit of storing carbon...
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New Directions for Tasmania’s Forests
Last night nearly one hundred Tasmanians attended a University of Tasmania forum to find solutions to the conflicts over Tasmania’s forests and...
