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818Forestry smoke: This is outrageous and indefensible
Dioxins are some of the most toxic chemicals known to man. Dioxins are produced whenever organic substances (anything containing carbon) are burned...
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The Bee All and End All – Tasmanian Bees at Risk
Dead bees. Does it really matter? Yes it does! In Tasmania, bees are estimated to provide a value of $188 million annually,...
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Academic freedom under attack from foresters institute
When a voluntary media spokesperson for the Institute of Foresters of Australia calls for the silencing of critics, alarm bells should ring....
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Parliament to have short sitting as test
TASMANIA”S Parliament will finally be recalled for the first time since early December last year on May 4 – but only for...
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Eden feels the heat over wood-fired power plant
EDEN, on the state’s south coast, is set to be the first Australian town to be powered by a wood-fired electricity plant,...
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An election sweep
Dear Editor, I would like to run a sweep on Tasmanian Times on how long it is until we see another election....
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A win for citizen journalism
As the result of pressure exerted in forums across the Internet (including Tasmanian Times) Tourism Australia has relented on its exploitative copyright...
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That recognition factor
This is about recognition of notable characters who helped mould the rich human mosaic of Tasmania’s colonial history. The ABC recently screened...
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A Narrative – The Unfolding of the Global Financial Crisis. Part 1 (Update 3)
In 1980 a series of large apparently engineered [1] increases in the global price of oil [2] led to the destabilisation of...
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Big Picture 77: the urgent need for action
The Big Picture issue #77 which starts to draw conclusions about our situation and begins to show the urgent need for action,...
