Tasmanian Times
Health
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1.1KThis is just plain wrong. Why is it allowed to continue?
My name is Prue Barratt and I live in Maydena in the Derwent Valley. I’m writing this to highlight what small towns...
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Dear Minister Green. Air pollution health risks
South Esk River, Image here Dear Minister Green, Can you confirm that the existing regulations for the application of pesticides in Tasmania...
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Hospitals and the $100 million band-aid
Within the next few days – perhaps on Wednesday – the federal health minister, Tanya Plibersek, will announce a large bailout package...
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Health bail-out imminent
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, said today the Federal Government is poised to announce a cash injection of hundreds of...
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I’m happy with that
I would like formally to announce, since they will not tell you, that the state government has withdrawn its proposed changes to...
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New study queries pesticide safety levels. State land and waterways ‘still poisoned’
South Esk River, Image here Pesticides could be damaging river biodiversity at levels that have been traditionally regarded as environmentally safe by...
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But wait! There’s worse!
Picture: Rob Walls here Most governments have limits to their death-wishes, so the Tasmanian government’s unwillingness to incite a repeat of the...
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Crossing the Line. Gay blood review continues unfair stigma
1988 image of Rodney Croome being arrested. Image from here Rodney Croome: Crossing the Line A number of evangelical Christians have officially...
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What Peak Oil will mean …
Actually I was thinking of none of those specifically, but I can’t see any real conflict between the vast majority of current...
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What exactly don’t we know?
Vandenberg et al. (Is everything we think we know about chemical toxicity wrong?) conclude that there is consistent evidence that dioxin, atrazine,...
