Tasmanian Times
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695Households pay to keep Tamar Valley Power Station viable
HOUSEHOLDS are paying to keep the Tamar Valley Power Station viable, an independent review of Tasmania’s electricity prices has concluded. The Independent...
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How Australia can solve its asylum seeker ‘problem’
THE asylum-seeker debate in Australia is demeaning and miserable. The politicians who participate in it have contempt for the Australian people. They...
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Dr Judith Ajani: The truth about the forestry industry. Greens clash over deal. Splintered state.
Inquiry into the Forest Industry The government is holding an inquiry into the Forest Industry to ascertain how to better the industry...
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Forest ‘deal’ chaos. Forestry accused of doing over sawmillers. Contractors left to rot
An administrative error has led to the premature release of a forest peace deal aimed at ending almost all native forest logging...
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‘Peace deal struck in Tasmanian forests’. Read the agreement
Warring parties in Tasmania have signed a historic agreement designed to end 30 years of conflict over logging in public native forests....
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Blow for wind farms as senators push probe into noise and health fears
URGENT research should be undertaken into the potentially damaging health effects of wind farms on nearby residents, says a landmark Senate report...
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Briscoe bids to be Lord Mayor
Hobart City Alderman Jeff Briscoe and a full time college teacher with the Education Department said today after much careful consideration of...
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Go back to where you came from
SYDNEY — Leaning against a bed in the modest home that she shares here with six other family members, Maisara Masudi, 37,...
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End to Tasmanian timber conflict ‘in sight’ … as Aprin puts its hand out
A DEAL to end 30 years of conflict in Tasmania’s forestry industry could be announced as early as today. Timber groups and...
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George, throw those barbs at the forest miners
I also use Tasmanian timbers to craft sculptural objects. Like George Harris, I am proud to be represented in the Wood Design...
