Tasmanian Times
Politics
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737The wood chip cost discrepancy
The wood chip cost discrepancy between pulp mills in Western and Eastern Canada was the lowest it has been in 10 years...
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Bell Bay aluminium smelter announces long-term energy contract
Rio Tinto Alcan Bell Bay aluminium smelter today announced the signing of a long-term, base load electricity supply contract with Hydro Tasmania...
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Forestry lobby group axes chairman
The Forest Industries Association of Tasmania (FIAT) has sacked its chairman because it can not afford to pay him. FIAT lost half...
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My husband, the conscientious objector. Assange, Runner-Up as Time’s Person of the Year
On Friday a 24-year-old navy medic faces a decision that could lead him to military prison after becoming one of the few...
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Christmas Island …
UP to 50 asylum-seekers are feared drowned after their boat was smashed on to cliffs at Christmas Island. Authorities believe the boat...
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Taking out Klan Troll
There has to be a more efficient and effective way to deal with the hydra-headed Troll Klan than the proposal put forward...
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Planning – A Critique
As a result of recently daring to ask if I could sub-divide the land I own I have been told by a...
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Stop the veto
It’s time for all RACT members to stop ‘our’ Club yet again vetoing the move to lower speed limits in Tasmania. It...
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A leaky Cabinet made up of drips
AS governments the world over reel beneath the onslaught of the WikiLeaks exposures, a second bundle of secret government cables has emerged....
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Reclaim the Cyber-Commons
They are the online equivalent of enclosure riots: the rick-burning, fence-toppling protests by English peasants losing their rights to the land. When...
