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The EV-hater’s guide to hating electric cars

Electric vehicles (EVs) are a sales flop and a dismal failure. Or so I was told this week — and last week...

Before … After … Anyone see specialist timber? Trees as jet fuel!

The people tell Gunns Time’s Up!

At mid-day today a determined crowd gathered at Gunns’ Long Reach mill site north of Launceston to peacefully protest the Tasmanian community’s...

Forced to change … FIAT, Libs outrageous, says Booth. Brown lashes Hodgman

There is a massive re-rating of native forest going on, even as world resolve to tackle climate change crumbles. Deforestation accounts for...

All they, like sheep, have gone astray …

A response to comments 43 and 46, on: In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is King Yes, Ms Mills...

Southern Water savaged … and no response to Susan of Howrah

The front page of The Mercury today details some of the failings of Southern Water (Article linked Below) … among the trio...

As soon as machinery rolls onto the pulp mill site, the community will be there to stop them …

Pulp the Mill, Code Green and Still Wild Still Threatened are staging a Peaceful Community Protest on Gunn’s land on the bitumen...

96yo can stay

An ailing 96-year-old British woman has won the right to stay in northern Tasmania with her only surviving relatives. Gladys Jefferson was...

Fight to end animal cruelty not over

The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has condemned the Labor Government and the Liberal-National Opposition for turning their backs on animal...

Giddings: Gunns eligible for up to $23 million. Brown: Open the books, FT

Lara Giddings: The state goverment will appoint an independent probity auditor to oversee a commercial settlement with Gunns to end its involvment...