Tasmanian Times
Politics
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917Looking forward to a smoking ban on the route of the Tour De France?
The unremarked passage of the Tasmanian Public Health Amendment Bill 2011. This week was a noteworthy one for reform of tobacco regulation...
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Thousands Urge EPA to Discount Flawed Science on Syngenta’s Atrazine
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–November 14 – As EPA reconsiders the science on atrazine, new findings highlight the link between low-level exposure to the nation’s most...
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Those South Pacific Cane Cutters
Last week SBS repeated a Doco on the White Australia policy. In it the Kanakas got a mention and that prompted me...
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McKim’s Federal bid? Power and pain of being Green
NICK McKim, the Tasmanian Greens leader and the nation’s first Greens cabinet minister — has flagged a potential move into federal politics,...
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Henry Savery … and The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
I knew little of Henry Savery until invited to help launch this book. I knew his name … and in the dark...
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Tassie Times awarded commendation from PIA
James Dryburgh collects the award from HCC’s Helen Burnet On Thursday night Tasmanian Times was awarded a commendation by the Tasmanian Division...
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Apology for wrongful dismissal
THE former head of the Sexual Assault Support Service has received a public apology for her prosecution over misconduct allegations. Karen Donnet-Jones...
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Special timbers sector endangered by Tas Forestry IGA. Petition
Stakeholders of Tasmania’s valuable special timbers sector who are unhappy with the industry-destroying Tasmanian forestry Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) have the backing of...
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Mine plan prompts new Emergency National Heritage bid for Tarkine
In response to the Venture Minerals’ Mount Lindsay open cut mine proposal inside the Meredith Ranges Regional Reserve, the Tarkine National Coalition...
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Tarkine: State must act
Picture: Nicole Anderson The Tasmanian Greens said the continual refusal by Federal Minister Tony Burke to move a National Heritage Listing for...
