Tasmanian Times
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834Greg Hunt: Why the carbon tax doesn’t work
THE COALITION’S DIRECT ACTION PLAN ON ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE Incentives for Action SPEECH TO THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CRAWFORD SCHOOL OF...
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Liberty, Abortion and the “Salamanca Declaration”
Mercury image: TT here The bill was supposedly a conscience vote for all parties but in the end the vote breakdown was...
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Changing wave heights projected as the atmosphere warms
Climate scientists studying the impact of changing wave behaviour on the world’s coastlines are reporting a likely decrease in average wave heights...
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Call for study into health effects of wood smoke
Picture, Geeveston, last Friday, April 12: Matt Newton, http://matthewnewton.com.au/Commercial/People/1/ Picture, Geeveston, last Friday, April 12: Matt Newton, http://matthewnewton.com.au/Commercial/People/1/ Pic: Rob Blakers, http://www.robblakers.com/...
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Tasmania, Tourism and the Elephant in the Room
There seems to be an accepted wisdom in Tasmania across a broad range of political persuasions that tourism is one of our...
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The Tasmanian Forest Gravy Train
Pic: Daniel Haley What started as government funding to compensate for native forest areas lost to the Tasmanian timber industry has become...
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Tasmania’s abortion bill passes
Abortion legislation has passed the House of Assembly after conservative Labor politicians voted in support of the bill. Attorney-General Brian Wightman, Denison...
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Dr Bob Brown announced as new patron of rebranded Tarkine campaign
The Tarkine National Coalition is pleased to make two exciting announcements that we believe will help increase the national profile of this...
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Plastic bag ban set to be delivered. One step away …
The Tasmanian Greens today hailed the tabling of the Plastic Shopping Bags Ban Bill (2013) as the first formal step towards a...
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CSIRO: ‘This dreadful news’
The decision by the CSIRO to cut 13 Hobart-based staff is dreadful news. People losing their job is terrible at any time...
