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9871792: Growing when D’Entrecasteaux explored the Huon
Photo: Ula Majewski Today, conservationists from the Huon Valley Environment Centre have released a sample of a celery top pine we believe...
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The Tragedy of Tasmania’s Forests: One act on from Flanagan
This story begins with Richard Flanagan’s powerful and influential 2007 essay, ‘Gunns: the Tragedy of Tasmania’ (i). The story Flanagan tells is...
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Gunns in trading halt
TIMBER company Gunns Limited is in a trading halt this morning pending the announcement of a capital raising and equity investment. Last...
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Historic Agreement, My Arse
Last Saturday, under a gorgeous cloudless sky, various environmental groups hosted a ‘Picnic in the Park’ on the Parliament House lawns in...
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Learning the Lessons from legalising prostitution: Response from a Sex Worker
A reply to an article by Mathew Holloway 30 January 2012-02-01“Learning the Lessons from legalising prostitution in Victoria” Mr Holloway makes a...
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We know our place now …
Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur ‘was delighted with someone who could deliver such a thunderous declamation about the evils of alcohol …’ Launch speech,...
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What price human rights?
The Tasmanian Greenshave urged Attorney-General Brian Wightman to rethink his intention to stall the introduction of the promised Tasmanian Human Rights Charter....
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FT a millstone around Tasmania’s neck. The Green crisis mission
Forestry chief Bob Gordon and Deputy Premier Bryan Green Read the report: HERE • Earlier John Lawrence analysis on Tasmanian Times: Dr...
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Tasmania’s farm sector needs investment
Tasmanian farmers will lead the way through any pending economic crisis provided the state government adopts an approach of less regulation and...
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Threat to vocational education and training
DEMISE of the SKILLS INSTITUTE and THREAT TO VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN TASMANIA The Tasmanian Education Association has condemned the Tasmanian...
