Tasmanian Times
Politics
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782How the government failed animals in live export
Suzanne Cass, from Live Export Shame Tasmania, says that the Gillard government continues to abjectly fail animals in the live export trade....
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Ancanthe … all that will be lost
Ancanthe: Mt Wellington on the skyline Brushy Creek Valley It is to be hoped that David Mackenzie Crean has some historical blood...
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The Vision, 2012
And I stood upon the scorched earth of the forest, and saw a beast rise up out of the debris, having eleven...
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Forestry: A Modus Operandi
It seems that with the issue of Forestry, no-one has really put their finger on the problem. Neither Forestry themselves, the government,...
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The Tale of Two Forests
It was late evening and there was no one else on the track. A thick, misty drizzle drifted through the tree-tops, obscuring...
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FT, and Foxgloves, and the WHA
Natural Resource Management (NRM) Weed Survey I was asked in late October 2011, as a neighbour to a World Heritage Area (WHA),...
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It’s sheer bloody murder, right on our doorstep
THE highest mountains between the Himalayas and the Andes are the snow-topped crags of West Papua (4884 metres). A tropical glacier pokes...
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1691 objections to new property valuations
TASMANIA’S valuer-general received 1691 objections in response to its latest cycle of 90,000 property valuations carried out in 2010. The valuations underpin...
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Two cases of Big Oil in South America
An Ecuadorean appeals court has upheld a ruling that Chevron should pay damages totalling $18.2bn (£11.5bn) over Amazon oil pollution. Chevron said...
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Government in talks to free whaling activists from ship
Photo: The three Forest Rescue activists (identity order in photo unavailable) who boarded the Japanese whaling vessel Shonan Maru 2 off the...
