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1.6KI am writing to express my extreme disappointment. Damian Bugg responds …
1 September, 2011 Dear Premier, I am writing to express my extreme disappointment at your government’s decision to withdraw all funding from...
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Get out of Afghanistan
Afghan activist, writer and former politician** Malalai Joya visited Hobart for a day last week with this message for Australia: Get Australian...
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Loal Government reform and the Tasmanian Economy
Saul Eslake, Director, Productivity Growth Program, the Grattan Institute has been asked, along with Jude Munro (former CEO of the Brisbane and...
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Tasmania’s Fox Scat Degradation Study. Eco-disaster fear …
[REFERENCE: “Eradicate” Issue 4 – WINTER 2011 a newsletter of the Fox Eradication Program DPIPWE Publication] What’s small, brown and can tell...
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The Green Oration
With planning underway for the 2012 Greens Oration, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the World’s First Greens Party, footage from the past...
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Biofuels – the good, the bad and the ugly
Wood fuel The original biofuel, as used in the discovery of fire and a firm favourite for millions of years. Jargon: ‘Biomass’...
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The Red Queen and the Poet Lorikeet
In contrast to our senior correspondent, Tess Lawrence says the reaction from Julia Gillard to the Glenn Milne story (On TT: HERE)...
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A toothless regulatory regime …
Genetically modified (GM) grass tolerant to the herbicide glyphosate, intended for use in golf courses, parks and athletic fields, has become a...
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Gunns moves the earth …
Gunns this morning took delivery of three large Komatsu earth moving machines. The first two arrived at 9:05, and the third at...
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Sitting outside the Long Reach site … copping abuse, and encouragement …
Dear Readers, I’m sitting against a tree by the side of the East Tamar Highway – on the George Town Road. I’m...
