Tasmanian Times
Health
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863EU dropped pesticide laws due to US pressure over TTIP, documents reveal
As negotiations for Australia to conclude the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) enthusiastically pushed by Trade Minister Andrew Robb it is revealed …...
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STATE: UTAS students risk arrest for fossil free divestment
As many as ten students from the University of Tasmania have occupied the office of the Vice Chancellor, refusing to leave until...
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Federal Treasurer needs to explain ice comments
Shadow Health Minister Rebecca White today called on Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey to explain his comments about ice abuse in Tasmania. The...
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NATION: Personal choice and economic reality; Paid Parental Leave
Paid parental leave is contentious. Parents get fiercely protective over their right to reproduce. Non-parents get angry about subsidising ‘personal choices’. Politicians...
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Beekeepers see 42% of US honeybee colonies die off in a single year
Summer deaths raise concern among entomologists as more than two in five colonies are lost: a ‘loud signal that there’s some bad...
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HACSU reveals LGH waiting list crisis
INFORMATION RECEIVED BY HACSU REVEALS A CRISIS IN THE LENGTH OF WAITING LISTS FOR SPECIALIST CLINICS AT LAUNCESTON GENERAL HOSPITAL The Launceston...
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Sea level rising faster in past 20 years than in entire 20th century. Here comes El Nino …
*Pic: Howrah Beach, Hobart … where high tides are beginning to encroach … A new study has found sea level rise accelerated...
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Petition to Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture
Dear Friends, I just signed the campaign: Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture It would mean the world to...
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For Nepalese women this is not about choice
For any organisation or person stating that working in the sex trade or brothels is about choice … think again … women...
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STATE: Milne got results from minority pacts with both sides of politics
*Pic: Matthew Newton captures the real Christine Milne … Matthew Newton, http://matthewnewton.com.au/Commercial/People/1/ … compared to Mercury pic here … Christine Milne, who...
