Tasmanian Times
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891World’s largest tidal farm highlights green ambition
They will be invisible from the surface, but lying on the seabed between two Scottish islands will produce enough electricity for more...
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Flanagan wins 2011 Tasmania Book Prize
Premier and Minister for the Arts, Lara Giddings MP, today presented local author Richard Flanagan with the top award at the prestigious...
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Sorry, says Thorp. The Trojan Horse scenario. Libs challenge
SUSTAINED public and political pressure today forced Police, Education and Children’s Minister Lin Thorp into making a humiliating apology to her political...
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North v South. Footy v Supercars
Symmons Plains money only secure for 2011 EMILY BRYAN 02 Apr, 2011 09:41 AM The state government has confirmed that its funding...
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Devonshire teas and trees. The Last Century Dinosaur
Three items in the news media recently shine the light on why the forest industry in Australia, including Tasmania, is in such...
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The Tarkine’s guard is down, let’s get it back
The emergency heritage listing granted to the Tarkine by the federal Government on the back of a road proposed through the Tarkines...
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Mercury Rising
Tension is rising in the Mercury newspaper’s headquarters in Hobart. An overwhelming majority of reporters, photographers and sub-editors at the Mercury are...
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Oil spill catastrophe highlights Tassie dangers
NEWS of environmental catastrophe in Japan, has eclipsed another pollution event on the other side of the world that has implications for...
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Greg responds to Richard … again
Richard Flanagan (Holding up Gunns through secret deals, HERE) might be right when he claims, “loathing of Gunns is deep seated”, but...
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Rene (and other MPs) in the Lion’s Den. Burke must table Kelty report, says Senate
Beaconsfield Public Meeting. Four Politicians ‘Hear Your Concerns and Questions On Gunns Proposed Pulp Mill’. March 31st 2011 Mediator John Day, the...
