Tasmanian Times
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1.1KSouth Eastern Midlands ‘Gasfield Free’
Residents from eight districts within the Southern Midlands Municipality of Tasmania have joined together to boldly declare their communities ‘Gasfield Free’. A...
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Peter Coad walks out …
Huon Valley Mayor Peter Coad has walked out of this week’s closed council meeting (30 March), called to discuss the findings of...
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NATION: Turnbull’s Tax Plan: A disaster for Tasmania … ?
At first glance, the plan to give income taxing powers back to the states so they can fund their own hospitals and...
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Who profits from the sex trade?
*Pic: Image from HERE Simone Watson is a sex trade survivor – a woman who has known the coercion and cruelty that...
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Climate change could put eucalypts at risk of death from air bubbles
Extreme droughts could lead to widespread death of eucalypts from embolisms, researchers say. The trees cannot quickly adjust the size of their...
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Mutual Residents seek to have Forest Practices Plan Revoked
In an unusual step, a resident of the Mutual Valley has applied to the Forest Practices Authority (FPA) and to the Minister...
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They serve the same Corporate Masters …
*Pic: Counterpunch’s pic of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, HERE In an article by Pete Hay, published in The Mercury (22nd March,...
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The passenger on Team Australia: Is it time to cut Tassie loose?
*Pic: Left off the map … Leo Schofield’s pic of a mushroom … minus the Tassie appendange … SOMEONE’S not pulling their...
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State Government’s Draft Climate Change Action Plan has major blindspots
The Tasmanian Conservation Trust today released key findings from it’s submission to the State Government’s Draft Climate Change Action Plan, stating that...
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Inadequate policing and inadequate penalties
*Pics: Hooning on Huon Road; Little policing for endangered species supports a one strike policy for hoons … This article will review...
