Tasmanian Times
Health
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996Andrew Wilkie: The rebuild is a mess and the previous State Government misled the community
I share new Tasmanian Health Minister Michael Ferguson’s assessment that the situation with the rebuild of the Royal Hobart Hospital is “appalling.”...
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Shree Minerals admits acid-producing waste to be twenty times higher than approvals for Tarkine mine
A Shree Minerals document obtained from the EPA by Save the Tarkine under a Right to Information request has disclosed that Shree...
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Environment Protection Authorities – ultimate off-side spin-doctors?
Savage River pollution: An earlier spill from Grange Resources into Savage River, March 2013: here The following insight focuses on the failings...
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Climate Change: The threats to Tasmania
• Professor Lesley Hughes, Chair, Tasmanian Climate Action Council: Tasmania’s climate change opportunities fading, unless decisive action taken 1 April 2014 The...
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Jim Bacon: The Emperor has no clothes
We’ve got to talk about Jim … Jim Bacon, Premier of Tasmania, 1998 to 2004. Jim was known as The Emperor (but...
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Lead! Who is going to take responsibility for this?
Winnaleah has become the seventh Tasmanian town to have Lead found in Tas Water’s reticulated drinking water supply. Winnaleah now follows on...
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Premier Hodgman Starts A War He Will Not Win
Newly-elect Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman wants two opposite and irreconcilable things at once. In his election night victory speech, he made a...
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Andrew Wilkie: Parliament turns its back on problem gamblers
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has today (Tues) expressed his disgust that the Australian Parliament overturned the hard-won poker machine...
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Too Big, Too Fast, Tooooo Close!
I saw him coming and wondered how soon it would be before he gave me a wide berth … but he didn’t...
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GUNNS – The life and death of a rogue corporation
Feature-Length Documentary This story is part David and Goliath and part Enron. It discovers what happens when the system fails and a...
