Society

Gunns: Vale Auspine

A history of Gunns undoubtedly will contain a chapter on the Auspine debacle, now edging closer to finality. The latest ASX announcement...

Why has Aprin got its hand out?

Here we go again. How many times are we supposed to compensate the industry and subsidise them for the same thing. The...

Dr Judith Ajani: The truth about the ‘mollycoddled’ forestry industry

Geraldine Doogue: But first to a bold challenge to one of our public industries. Get off the public purse once and for...

How to get your piece of the $2 billion pie

Nuclear power: “uneconomic and unnecessary”

For four decades we have known modern energy systems could threaten civilisation in two ways—climate change and nuclear proliferation—so we must reject...

Abolish nuclear weapons

Global Nuclear Weapons Disarmament Day – 25 June 2011 From the ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) website-www.icanw.org ‘Nuclear Abolition Day...

Live Cattle Export – the industry view

Since the airing of the Four Corners program dealing with live exports of Australian cattle to Indonesia, there has been a wave...

NEW: Geoff’s Best Reads

Starting today and on Tasmanian Times every fortnight, widely-read Geoff Dickinson chooses Six of the past fortnight’s Best Reads. • Geoff’s Summary:...

Carbon Dating

EARLIER this year, the members of the Royal Geological Society met in London to consider whether a new division of the geological...

Letter from a refugee — ‘We thank you for remembering us’

The message below was sent on June 20 — World Refugee Day — from an asylum seeker named Jaffer. Jaffer is held...