Tasmanian Times
Planning/Heritage
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2.7KMt Wellington and the cable car: The quick and easy road …
*Image: Gwenda Sheridan. © Mount Wellington from the Eastern Shore. First published July 31 The Cable Car (MWCC) proposal has been around...
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‘Accusations Senator Abetz may have sat wrongly in Senate for up to 16 years should be cleared up’
First published August 3 Statement on Citizenship … “In 1968 I was born in Singapore. My parents were there while my father...
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Special Timbers Welfare State …
First published August 2 A mere 7 years after the last special species management plan was produced by Forestry Tasmania in 2010...
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The story of whisky in Tasmania …
Beer, they say, is a conversation; wine is a lecture. Well, whisky – I say – is a spell and as a...
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‘VDL sale opponents were right’
The revelation today that the sale of the Van Diemen’s Land Company has not resulted in the promised jobs and investment just...
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‘Commercial fisherman launches Okehampton Bay occupation’ Federal approval …
*Pic: Fish Farm sign …Pic: Paul Tapp *Pic: Marine Protection Tasmania … Image from here All pictures Paul Tapp Media at the...
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A soaring city reaps a terrible toll
*Pic: Digital image of Fragrance Group’s proposed hotel at 28-30 Davey St, Hobart: Tall buildings, particularly those which are brightly lit at...
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Death by Airbag …
*Pic: Airbag deployed … Paul Frankenstein, Flickr First published July 29 Regrettably it takes a death for action to occur … On...
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Intellectual Slobbery …
*Cartoon: Martyn Turner, used with permission: https://www.facebook.com/martynturnercartoons/ . http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/martyn-turner That odd ball conservative Donald Trump has bought new meaning to the concept...
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Do the Liberals Really Want to Destroy the Logging Industry … ?
First published July 27 Log, log, log! This is the monotonous mantra of the state’s Liberals at the moment. But deep within...
