Tasmanian Times
Health
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The fatal allergy
CURRENTLY, around 12,000 Tasmanians and an estimated 60,000 Australians are known to suffer a serious allergy to Jack Jumper Ant stings. Of...
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Your Say
Increasingly research is showing us that previously documented (albeit the research to produce the documentation was “limited”) safe pesticides are anything but...
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Long term chemicals
THIS study (report below), written in a peer reviewed journal, should make us all sit up and really think about how much...
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The Breakdown
What do you do when something happens that you know to be wrong, unethical or inappropriate? A person behaves unethically; actions are...
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The complaint
People come here to receive treatment, to have surgery, to give birth and to die, in a building in the middle of...
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Tests clear … but not final
St Helens’ water supply has been cleared on three sides in the first week of March – with DPIWE’s first quarterly river...
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A talk with Steve Kons
Paul and I attended the dinner held in Launceston on 10th March 2005, to promote Organic Agriculture. The press were there, so...
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Chemicals … the dark ages
Today I have been doing some research on the water quality and contamination issues we confront in Tasmania today. After reading what...
