Tasmanian Times
Wellbeing & Lifestyle
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All about POPs
Dr David Obendorf The chemists also measured PBDEs in 700 samples of farmed and wild salmon from around the world (all except...
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English Prison Ships
Billy MacTold How are the Brits coping? Not too well it seems. A recent report said as many as 165,000 asylum-seekers are...
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A definition of industry
Richard Butler When I am found by the RSPCA to have starved horses or dogs or mistreated them – I can be...
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Clean, green, pristine …
David Obendorf The detection of polybrominated biphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in the body fat of Tasmanian devils should be yet another prompt to...
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Those fire retardants
Christopher Purcell Is it true that these fire-retardants are used as wetting/binding agents for the application of the pesticides? Read more, Comment...
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Poison Island (2)
David Obendorf Timeline of the toxicology study in Tasmanian devils A range of POPs including organo-chlorines, PCBs, furans and dioxins have already...
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Out of sight, out of mind
Percy from the Pews A particularly important consideration – bearing in mind what has happened to the St Mary’s windows – should...
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3.3KTiers fall on a forgotten history
Geoffrey Smedley Grandson of Edward Higgs: No, I’m not to be classed as a “Greenie”. I have just witnessed a stunningly sad...
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The Bloke is back
Louise North ‘MANCATIONS’, ‘MAN-ernoon’ and ‘guy pride’ are words that have recently been flung into the media vocabulary to describe men getting...
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Down to the last croak
Dr Alison Bleaney St Helens Atrazine and simazine are used extensively in Tasmania as well as mainland Australia. The Canola TT (...
