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An Impure Tasmania

Conflicts of public and private interest in arts funding are rarely if ever fully aired in Australian cultural funding debates. In future...

Orchids of the propaganda dead zone

Orchids can appear in some strange places, and it’s not so unusual to find some species deep within our cities, if you...

The Coming Dark Ages (or how Labor turned paradise into a parasite)

Five years ago, recently departed Treasurer Michael Aird told a Legislative Council estimates committee that Tasmania’s massive unfunded superannuation debt was nothing...

More water tests equals more chemical contamination events … again!

Canberra backs forests peace deal. No compo

THE Gillard government has backed the pioneering Tasmanian forests peace pact, ensuring a blueprint to end most native forest logging can be...

Infrastructure Investment and Productivity

Text and accompanying slides of Saul Eslake’s talk to the Tasmanian Branch of the Economics Society’s Annual Economic Forum held in Hobart,...

Indigenous burn control a myth: study

New research puts paid to the belief that Aboriginal people used fire on a large scale to control vegetation across Australia. The...

Huon Valley Guessing Games: Smoke and mirrors

Something pricked someone’s conscience before the November 10 meeting of Huon Valley Council — it might even have been Tasmanian Times’ ‘Trial...

Delusions, Gutwein and Forestry

Reading transcripts of Government Business Scrutiny Hearings can be boring. But it can also be revealing. Sometimes it’s the questions. Other times...

Bartlett’s World of Forestry Fantasy

The day after an “anti-pulp mill meeting” in Launceston, noteworthy for Warwick Raverty’s suggestion that Gunns should consider using compensation money (for...