Tasmanian Times
Society
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828A message to GetUp members from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams
A message to GetUp members from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams: Dear Robert, As the founding coordinator of the International Campaign...
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The people tell Gunns Time’s Up!
At mid-day today a determined crowd gathered at Gunns’ Long Reach mill site north of Launceston to peacefully protest the Tasmanian community’s...
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Forced to change … FIAT, Libs outrageous, says Booth. Brown lashes Hodgman
There is a massive re-rating of native forest going on, even as world resolve to tackle climate change crumbles. Deforestation accounts for...
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All they, like sheep, have gone astray …
A response to comments 43 and 46, on: In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is King Yes, Ms Mills...
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As soon as machinery rolls onto the pulp mill site, the community will be there to stop them …
Pulp the Mill, Code Green and Still Wild Still Threatened are staging a Peaceful Community Protest on Gunn’s land on the bitumen...
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96yo can stay
An ailing 96-year-old British woman has won the right to stay in northern Tasmania with her only surviving relatives. Gladys Jefferson was...
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Fight to end animal cruelty not over
The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has condemned the Labor Government and the Liberal-National Opposition for turning their backs on animal...
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Giddings: Gunns eligible for up to $23 million. Brown: Open the books, FT
Lara Giddings: The state goverment will appoint an independent probity auditor to oversee a commercial settlement with Gunns to end its involvment...
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It’s all about the profits. Fund new media. Worse for Rupert. The anonymity debate. Trust?
Billy MacTold writes: On the critical, indeed parlous state of today’s newspapers I offer the following: the presentation of news was once...
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Tasmanian Aborigines want a cut of land tax
Tasmanian Aborigines want the State Government to hand over a proportion of land tax revenue. Representatives from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre met...
