Tasmanian Times
Health
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855The toxic assault on our children
Biologist, mother and activist Sandra Steingraber joins Bill to explain why she was willing to go to jail — and did —...
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Balance is appeasement. Fairness is truth …
• ABC: MLC candidates polled on social views Both Zoe Edwards and Brad Markham are good reporters. And Tasmania is lucky to...
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Reducing emissions from wood heaters
Reducing emissions from wood heaters Public consultation On 11 April 2013, the Council of Australian Governments Standing Council on Environment and Water...
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The health money-go-round
The buck stops here: Health Minister Michelle O’Byrne and Premier Lara Giddings. Picture: Rob Walls, http://robertwalls.wordpress.com/ The failure of Tasmania’s hospitals to...
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1000 Letters and Counting
Community members from Carlton River, Dodges Ferry & Copping have sent over 1000 letters to the Regional Development Australia Fund (RDAF), protesting...
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A monumental failure of regulatory authority … ?
Like almost anyone who lives in Texas, I have visited the town of West, uncountable times. Nobody drives I-35 through the middle...
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Call for study into health effects of wood smoke
Picture, Geeveston, last Friday, April 12: Matt Newton, http://matthewnewton.com.au/Commercial/People/1/ Picture, Geeveston, last Friday, April 12: Matt Newton, http://matthewnewton.com.au/Commercial/People/1/ Pic: Rob Blakers, http://www.robblakers.com/...
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Tasmania, Tourism and the Elephant in the Room
There seems to be an accepted wisdom in Tasmania across a broad range of political persuasions that tourism is one of our...
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Tasmania’s abortion bill passes
Abortion legislation has passed the House of Assembly after conservative Labor politicians voted in support of the bill. Attorney-General Brian Wightman, Denison...
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Plastic bag ban set to be delivered. One step away …
The Tasmanian Greens today hailed the tabling of the Plastic Shopping Bags Ban Bill (2013) as the first formal step towards a...
