Tasmanian Times
Health
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1.0KPulp mill stink spelled the end of Gunns
Pulp mills stink. To convey how badly, in 2007, a former CSIRO scientist, Warwick Raverty, smuggled a sample of the odour, soaked...
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Help promote … Turning Points to Compassion
Christine Materia Turning Points in Compassion by Gypsy Wulff and Fran Chambers I am assisting Gypsy and Fran the editors of the...
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Pharmaceutical industry gets high on fat profits
Imagine an industry that generates higher profit margins than any other and is no stranger to multi-billion dollar fines for malpractice. Throw...
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Time to close a Northern hospital
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie’s submission to the State Government’s Delivering Safe and Sustainable Clinical Services Green Paper was lodged...
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The disastrous economics of the past 50 years …
Review: The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd. by Quentin Beresford. Sydney: NewSouth, 2015 Reviewed by John Biggs Despite its title, this...
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Bright OLD things …
My twin brother who works for a major engineering firm in London and helped design fashion designer Victoria Beckham’s new Dover Street...
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Representing the future of waste management in your community
Site of the planned Copping C Cell … Image: here Southern Waste Solutions (SWS) is calling on members of the community with...
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Ban Fracking in Tasmania
The group “Frack Free Tas” is holding a public meeting on Wednesday the 18th of February, at the Sustainable Living Tasmania Centre...
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Porn, manga and the 21st century Japanese man
The generation of men who have come of age in Japan’s twenty-first century society have grown up enveloped in a world of...
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NATION: UK pledge to phase out coal a wake up call for blinded Liberals, Nationals & Labor
*Pic: Bob Burton’s pic of coal in the Fingal Valley … Australian Greens Leader Christine Milne says the UK cross party agreement...
