Tasmanian Times
National
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Gunns still in plantation contention
RACHEL WILLIAMS, Examiner TASMANIAN timber company Gunns remains in contention to secure a 100,000 hectare plantation estate from failed managed investment scheme...
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Community urges Prime Minister Rudd to commit to a stronger climate plan
HANNAH AULBY, Climate Action Hobart Local community climate group Climate Action Hobart today supported the Senate’s vote against the Federal Government’s Carbon...
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Greens slam dishonest spin on pulp mill
KIM BOOTH The Tasmanian Greens today (Wednesday) refuted claims by the Forest Industry Association of Tasmania (FIAT) that only plantation timber will...
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Aerial spraying by-law rejected
READER Can I draw your attention to a most interesting but unexplained item in Tuesday’s Examiner ? It was on page 11...
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Rudd, Garrett and Wong are a bloody disgrace
KARL STEVENS, http://west-tamar-talk.blogspot.com/ It’s become the harshest indictment yet of spineless Australian politicians. Rudd, Garrett, Penny Wong, Tony Burke, Kim Carr and...
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China’s spin offensive
ALAN KOHLER, Business Spectator China’s demented behaviour over Stern Hu and Rebiya Kadeer is starting to become quite disturbing. You wonder, in...
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Build it … and they won’t come…
AUSTRALIAN THE federal government’s “build it and they will come” mentality to its ambitious $43billion national broadband network has fallen on deaf...
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Whatever happened to the democratic principal of one voice for all?
STEPHAN So, $10,000 dollars to have a chat with the Federal Treasurer. $2,000 a plate to talk with members of our State...
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Selling ALP indulgences
ALAN KOHLER Business Spectator Last week I bumped into a government relations manager of a major company who paid $10,000 to attend...
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Cap put on Turnbull’s plan
MICHELLE GRATTAN, Age NATIONALS Senate leader Barnaby Joyce has dismissed the Opposition alternative to the Government’s emissions trading scheme, saying Labor won’t...
