Tasmanian Times
Wellbeing & Lifestyle
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760More woe for mining … but we’ll keep backing multinationals …
Plans to restart Tasmania’s Mount Lyell copper mine from the end of July are in disarray after a rockfall in its ventilation...
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TWC Bulletin: Winning Pillow Talk Poems unveiled
Tasmanian Writers’ Centre Join celebrated poet, Gina Mercer, the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre and the Festival of Voices in unveiling the five winning...
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Federal Liberals’ repressive anti-environment vendetta
Federal Liberals’ repressive anti-environment vendetta to strip rights to free speech & attack fundraising potential of environment groups The announced intention of...
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Free from senseless and uneconomical exploitation that has ravaged them over the past four decades
Last week in Qatar confirmed the ultimate ratification for the eastern boundaries of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. Not without the...
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Mother Mountain: The Symphony of Birdsong (18)
The “Respect the Mountain” forum ( here, here, and here ) at the Hobart Town Hall earlier this year prompted Don Knowler...
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TasWater’s fly-in consultants at $1000 a day
TasWater is paying fly-in consultants more than $1000 a day to do work its own employees should be doing, says Professionals Australia,...
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Freedom of the Press … and the extraordinary William Cuffay
Trove (permanent dinkus in TT’s left-hand favoured blogs column) is a treasure … Little, it seems, has changed much since this was...
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Phone-hacking trial was officially about crime; but in reality, it was about power
Pic*: In the pew … some, later in The Dock: Rupert and his minions attend church … TT linked to this story...
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Dark day for democracy but Tasmanians will not be silenced
*Pic: More picutures by Andrei Nikulinsky of yesterday’s (June 26, 2014) protest against Libs’ proposed laws proposing protest bans, HERE The passage...
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Hydro Tasmania to cut about 100 jobs, cites carbon tax repeal as factor
*Pic: Hydro’s Gordon dam Hydro Tasmania has announced it is to cut about 100 jobs, citing the repeal of the carbon tax...
