Tasmanian Times
Health
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854The heat is on for change
JAMES Hansen, the respected NASA scientist, said: “Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them.” The medical profession has failed to address...
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Gillard paves way to end Tasmania logging conflict
THE Gillard government has offered to finance a potential breakthrough between environmentalists and forestry companies to end the decades-long conflict over native...
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International spotlight on arsenic and lead poisoning in Australian lead mining town
The Global Lead Advice and Support Service (GLASS), has published, on one of the most popular lead websites in the world, the...
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Forestry Smoke … not a good start for David O’Byrne
In Budget Estimates recently David O’Byrne MP, was reported in Hansard as saying the acknowledged dangerous levels of forestry smoke earlier this...
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‘Crew must not be locked on board of fumigation ship’
The Tasmanian Greens today demanded that the Labor government intervene and ensure that the crew of the whole log transport ship, ID...
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Farms snub fox bait layers
LAND owners are fighting plans to lay 1080 fox baits on land in one of Tasmania’s last healthy Tasmanian devil strongholds. The...
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Whole log exports to cease … but no-one seemed to have told Forestry Tasmania
The Tasmanian Greens today congratulated the people of Tasmania, and especially the people of George Town and Burnie, after Forestry Minister Bryan...
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As fumigation starts, ‘Labor and Forestry Tasmania must explain whole log exports’
The Tasmanian Greens today continued to press the Labor Government to explain why whole pine logs are being exported to China, and...
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Here come the health cuts
TASMANIA’S health department has confirmed it is looking to make budget cuts across the state. Department secretary David Roberts said yesterday a...
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The sun was shining on the sea
The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth...
