Society

Taking shorter showers doesn’t cut it

via JON SUMBY Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political ChangeBy Derrick Jensen, Orion Magazine , This article was first published in...

Trains of Treasure!

BRIAN DUNNETT Trains of Treasure project Please find some information for your members and others who maybe interested in details of a...

Skilled guide shortage

MERCURY AN outdoor adventure company has cancelled tours because of a shortage of skilled guides. Aardvark Adventures operates the world’s highest commercial...

Cuba’s green revolution

ASH PEMBERTON Participatory decision-making about cultivation, harvesting, and consumption is encouraged through new models of ownership and distribution. Labour relationships have been...

Pain on the road to recovery

The impacts of plantations

Dr KATHRYN WILLIAMS, Dr JACKI SCHIRMER New reports analyse impacts of plantation industry on rural communities in Tasmania. Two new reports released...

No exclusivity in Faulkner’s new world of gotcha-free FOI

BERNARD KEANE, http://www.crikey.com.au/ The media demanded Freedom of Information reform — and John Faulkner gave it to them. In spades.A series of...

Planning … and best practice

MARION NICKLASON In response to Minister Llewellyn’s defence of the reduction of opportunities for public participation in the Tasmanian planning process (Mercury...

This is the Bacon legacy

GREG JAMES The commission taken from each dollar gambled on pokies, in Tasmania is split in the following manner: to the venue...

The importance of principle

MIKE BOLAN In management and leadership, it makes a huge difference to be working to a set of coherent and proven principles...