Tasmanian Times
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941To the Meander Valley Council Mayor and All Councillors
Image here Dear Councillors, We note that Meander Valley Council’s 28th February 2012 Special Meeting has been called ostensibly to “Discuss the...
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Native Forest Logging is economic madness
While the arguments about forestry rage again, the central tenet of the argument, while mentioned in passing, fails to grab the political...
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Expansion of bushfire alert SMS system needs priority. Farmers count cost
The Tasmanian Greens today have called for State Labor to prioritise the expansion of the current Emergency Alert fire warning system, to...
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The state ought to be booming, not going broke
Temco This informative observation was first posted as Comment 12 on this thread here, Cliched, populist drivel … and incomprehension. Temco woe:...
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Huon activists anything but anarchic
Peter Pepper “Anarchists” is how Peter Pepper describes members of Huon Valley Environment Centre (HVEC). It’s not surprising that Pepper, as a...
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At first I thought this email from DHHS was a joke. Dangers of farmed salmon
Picture: John Hawkins of Forestry burn-off smoke over Chudleigh Dr. Roscoe Taylor Director Public Health, & Dr. Chrissie Pickin Deputy Director Public...
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Prostitution laws – Towards a coherent philosophical underpinning
‘Some of the questions about prostitution cannot be resolved by research because they are fundamental questions about the kind of society one...
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What Leo thinks of brutalism
It is so pathetic to see trendoids obsessed with everything from the 1950s, scampering around trying to save so-called New Brutalist buildings...
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Extreme tree-spiking exposed in Tasmania
There has been quite a bit of heated argument recently from both sides of the debate regarding the practice of tree-spiking in...
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This is the game changer. Milne: Lies, Forestry Tasmania must go. Gunns …
An editorial in The Australian newspaper today, Forestry conflict needs to end (Australian 23 Feb, (Reproduced below and online here) ), is...
