Tasmanian Times
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1.1KMiami, the great world city, is drowning while the powers that be look away
*Image: Charles N. Abbott: http://99cnaclasses.com/miami/ ; http://99cnaclasses.com/ Low-lying south Florida, at the front line of climate change in the US, will be...
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Hobart Baroque storms the Helpmanns with three award nominations
*Pic: Chas Rader-Shieber, Kathryn Lewek, Julia Lezhneva After just two years, Hobart Baroque has moved into the big league of national festivals...
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Ten Days … what is going on?
What the hell is going on with the event formerly known as Ten Days on the Island, Hag wishes to know. In...
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Triabunna woodchip mill destruction: State Government pushes for inquiry
The Tasmanian Government wants a parliamentary inquiry into the destruction of a woodchip mill on the state’s east coast. Millionaire environmentalists Graeme...
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Just out: Third Audit of Mine Safety Unit, Read for yourself. ABC: A damning report
Download, Read for Yourself, Third Audit of the Mine Safety Unit, and Office of Chief Inspector of Mines, Worksafe Tasmania: http://worksafe.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/288845/Quinlan_Report_2014.pdf •...
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Carbon Tax – all bets are on …
Carbon tax repeal almost certain as PUP seals amendments deal Abbott government on track to be third time lucky, with repeal bills...
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TasWater pays out more than $330,000 for HR Consultants since Oct 2013
TasWater engaged a multinational HR firm at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars to do basic functions such as job...
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Honouring remembrance
In his Mercury My Tasmania column, Leo Schofield touched on an important point – the memorials to our soldiers killed in World...
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Solar has won. Even if coal were free to burn, power stations couldn’t compete
*Pic: Lagging … Chart showing comparitive use of solar Behind the times … As Tasmania’s ‘Unfair’ Economic Regulator forces the Feed In...
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Hemp’s hamstrung potential
There has been a great deal of discussion over the past couple of weeks about whether Tasmania should move to trial the...
