Tasmanian Times
Health
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1.0KSenate Inquiry Hears Fish Farm Story is Different to Reality
*Pic: Sediment beneath salmon pens shaken off kelp, and as the kelp normally is … Environment Tasmania, the Tasmanian Conservation Trust and...
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Amnesty International … the sex trade’s new best friend
Feminist Roundup Amnesty International’s recently released Draft Policy on Sex Work, to be considered at the organisation’s 32nd International Council Meeting (ICM)...
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Amnesty International condemned over fast-tracking of sex laws policy
Human Rights and Womens groups along with Survivors have been outraged over the continued attempt by Amnesty International to rail road through...
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Chinatown …
Stills from Chinatown … It was a movie I’d seen long ago. Chinatown starred Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. They were probably...
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Diabetes is a serious disease that all Tasmanians need to understand better
With National Diabetes Week upon us, Diabetes Tasmania CEO Caroline Wells discusses some of the common misconceptions around diabetes and why all...
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The hemp industry frustration …
An article in Sunday’s Examiner (12th July) has highlighted the frustration of those wishing to expand the hemp industry in Tasmania. http://www.examiner.com.au/story/3204481/anger-at-hemp-push-stalemate/?cs=95...
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Trans-Pacific Partnership would be disastrous for Australia …
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has urged Australia’s political leaders to not sign Australia up to the Trans-Pacific Partnership amid...
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Watermark prompts Windsor parly rethink
Former independent MP Tony Windsor is considering making a political comeback, especially after the government approved a coalmine in his old electorate....
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A typical kneejerk reponse …
TasWater’s Review (of a scientific paper on identification of the sources of metal (lead) contamination in drinking waters in north-eastern Tasmania) has...
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Nothing much has changed in almost half a century …
The picture of Sundown River in the Sundown Point State Reserve on the Tarkine Coast was taken by me on 24 February...
