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4.2KIsrael Grants First Golan Heights Oil Drilling licence To Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch
Israel has granted a U.S. company the first licence to explore for oil and gas in the occupied Golan Heights, John Reed...
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How the loggers created the firestorm
“It’s called fuel loading,” said Parker Berrington, a firefighter, clutching an adze hoe amid crackling flames and groaning, collapsing tree branches, one...
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Is it true we live in a society and not an economy?
Discussion and Q&A with economists Graeme Wells and Senator Peter Whish-Wilson and Corporate Governance Lecturer Tom Baxter. About the speakers: Graeme Wells...
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Captured by vested corporate interests … ?
Soil advice must be earthy – and impartial In the end it’s about trust. With food scarcity snapping at the world’s heels,...
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Tasmania’s Prisons System – under the microscope
In April 2012 two months [i]before[/i] Barry Greenberry came to Tasmania the Director of Corrections, Mr Robert Williams appeared before a Parliamentary...
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Class actions
The story so far Justice Russell Fox said: Justice means fairness, and that fairness and morality require a search for the truth,...
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Frederick Augustus Gow Packer (1839-1902): Tasmanian organist and composer
Frederick Augustus Gow Packer was a brilliant Tasmanian composer of secular and religious music. At the time he was widely recognized as...
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Deserts ‘greening’ from rising CO2
Increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) have helped boost green foliage across the world’s arid regions over the past 30 years through...
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TFA passes
The Tasmanian Greens today welcomed the passage through both Houses of the Tasmanian Parliament the Tasmanian Forest Agreement Act Initial Proposed Reserve...
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Dudded on Durability: How the Members of the Legislative Council are being misled
Dear Legislative Councillors, Nothing would please me more to be able to say that we support this durability report, the Governments response...
