Tasmanian Times
Politics
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938Suspended?
Gunns stated they would provide “a further market update on Friday 26th August”. (Download: Gunns_Suspension.pdf) This has never been released. As a...
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Has the contract been signed?
Three months ago Tasmanian Times asked this question: Contracts signed to turn forests into pellets: Is this true? It seems this is...
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Mill Permits: Acid on Wightman as Giddings stays silent and flick-passes
MINISTER MUST COMMIT TO LEGAL ACTION ON GUNNS PULP MILL The Tasmanian Greens today called on the Attorney General Brian Wightman to...
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Is this responsible reporting?
The Examiner was great reading Tuesday morning for pulp mill buffs. A terrific front-page colour photograph of some yellow excavators in a...
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Light rail business case fails to show that rail is cheapest option
Community-based public transport advocacy group, Future Transport Tasmania (FTT), today criticized the final report of the Light Rail Business case as it...
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Fear, Inc.: America’s Islamophobia Network
At this time last year, as the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks approached, the country was gripped by a pernicious...
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Criminality and Cruelty: an open letter to Australian parliamentarians
As you are no doubt aware cruelty to animals is a marker of criminal psychopathology in individual perpetrators. Cultures which accept such...
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Rewnewable energy push
TASMANIA should become Australia’s renewable energy state, producing 100 per cent of its own needs and selling clean power to rest of...
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Gillard calls; Australian sorry
THE alarm bells had been ringing in Julia Gillard’s office for days, but they really went shrill after the first of the...
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Gunns silent on Giddings’ offer
The state government has confirmed that it has made a commercial settlement offer to timber company Gunns. Premier Lara Giddings said the...
