Health

Is all Tasmania poisoned?

Is Hobart’s water poisoned? Is Launceston’s water poisoned? The revelations in last night’s Australian Story about Dr Alison Bleaney and the toxic...

Rosebery: Giddings responds

QUESTION: The toxic heavy metals taskforce plans to write to you today, they’re saying they want Roscoe Taylor and Chrissie Pickin to...

Rosebery residents call for heads to roll

The Toxic Heavy Metals Taskforce Tasmania has today written to the Attorney General and Minister for Health Lara Giddings calling for Dr...

The determination of TT’s Tasmanian of the Year

A Tasmanian doctor who was instrumental in ending the Falklands War says that was much easier than her current battle with the...

Recollections and Prognostications of an Octogenarian

SEVENTY-ODD years ago in my early teens I made my first visit to Burnie. I had boarded the train at the then...

TT’s Tasmanian of the Year on Australian Story

This program is about an unlikely alliance between a GP, a group of oyster farmers and a Sydney scientist. They banded together...

The Trial of Michelle O’Byrne: A Public Address

Pesticides found in five rivers

The latest round of chemical testing has found pesticides in five Tasmanian rivers, all of them in northern parts of the state....

So much thoughtless and mindless destruction

Australia’s extreme climatic conditions have helped create our unusually diversified wildlife and vegetation. As a result the continent has many small, specialised...