Tasmanian Times
Health
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More fees please
Susan Austin A community petition has been launched calling for more public funding to our ambulance services and opposing the introduction of...
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Puncturing the GM myths
Dr Alison Bleaney The GM debate must not be allowed to slide under the radar away from public scrutiny. Tasmania and its...
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Mersey: the unhealthy prospect
Kerry O’Brien ABC 7.30 Report Tony Abbott, can you look Australians in the eye and say that the Mersey Hospital decision has...
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But should we drink it?
Alison Bleaney Water, water… well – nearly everywhere – but should we drink it?A NEW article has been published in Rural and...
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So, what is happening in Tasmania?
Alison Bleaney Cancer rates higher in rural and remote areas — so what is happening in Tasmania? Why is this information not...
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Tell me a story before I go to bed
Neo Conned “Sensationalist claptrap!!” I hear the board member say, “Where’s the proof in humans?” Well I would like to enlist your...
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Any figures for Tasmania?
Ian Cohen NSW Parliament Can the Minister assure the House that the chemicals simazine, atrazine and hexazinone, which have been banned in...
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The Aboriginal health crisis
Dr Maureen Davey It’s true, Aboriginal health is much worse than that experienced by other Australians. Whether Aborigines live in urban areas...
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A Tasmanian catastrophe (2)
Bob McMahon, Alison Bleaney “Atrazine is even banned in Angola! How much more Third World can Australia be than to allow this...
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A Tasmanian catastrophe
Alison Bleaney Australia is allowing 400 times the amount of (atrazine) contamination that we found in castrated amphibians and fish — there’s...
