Tasmanian Times
National
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Hypocrisy unbound
BOB McMAHON The likes of Xenophon, Milne and Brown would do this nation a great service by pointing out that the Burke/Gunns...
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Tony Burke’s big mistake
BOB McMAHON, TAP Into a Better Tasmania, June 26 Federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Tony Burke is looking very foolish...
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A state-sponsored project on the Soviet model
BOB McMAHON As I have repeatedly said from the early stages of this pulp mill saga, the Gunns mill proposal was never...
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Dear Mr Burke
RICK PILKINGTON Dear Mr Burke having just read your press release Statement by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, the Hon...
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Serious errors, flawed methodology
PAUL OOSTING, SIMON BRANIGAN The forest industry report into the value of subsidies to the community used flawed methodology, contains serious errors...
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883The flawed methodology of this report is not the template to follow
GRAEME WELLS, School of Economics and Finance, University of Tasmania. A Critique of Assessing Direct Government Subsidies Paid to Tasmanian Industries (A...
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As 22 Gunns jobs go, pulp mill panellists including a forestry union boss get $657 a day …
ADVOCATE TWENTY-two jobs are to go at a North-West veneer mill. Workers at Gunns’ Somerset site have been asked to nominate for...
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Preserving old-growth forests is vital to saving the planet
GAVAN McFADZEAN SO WHERE are the world’s most carbon-rich forests? Not the tropical rainforests of the Amazon, Borneo or Africa’s Congo Basin,...
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Picking losers under the guise of picking winners
MIKE BOLAN Now that two of the Managed Investment Scheme (MIS) promoted by governments have gone into receivership, leaving tens of thousands...
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This attack is full of irony
PETER RUNDALL How can a senator who demands all-out extraction from the forests launch such an attack? A man for profit and...
