Tasmanian Times
Society
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866Erin Brockovich joins campaign for review of pesticide laws
THE Federal Government is under renewed pressure to protect Australians and the environment from pesticides banned overseas for years. More than a...
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100,000 rally to stop live exports
TO THE MERCURY Dear Editor, The Ban Live Exports rally at Parliament House in Hobart on Saturday, June 18, attracted an estimated...
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A handful of thoughts before the dust
I’ve done outside jobs: journalism. I learned not to mistake a journalist for a god-thief. Journalists’ theft is a very different kind...
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Tasmania’s finest buildings
Contemporised campus gains highest honour at Tasmanian Architecture Awards The ‘deftly handled’ reinvigoration of Ogilvie High School in Hobart has tonight (Saturday...
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The dangers of bone-headed beliefs
Surely it’s time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies. Not necessarily on the forehead; I’m a...
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Population, Immigration and Citizenship, Weeks 22, 23
Geoff Dickinson’s wonderful summation of worldwide links to articles and facts on population, immigration and citizenship. Download: 2011-Week_22_Population,_Immigration_and_Citizenship_20110604.doc 2011-Week_23_Population,_Immigration_and_Citizenship_20110611.doc
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Tasmanian Greens establish e-Petition for Container Deposit Legislation
Tasmanian Greens member Phillip Bingley has introduced an e-Petition calling for Container Deposit Legislation as a matter of urgency, following the lead...
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Space for Peace
In early 2007 China hit one of its own satellites in space with a missile. It was a neat bit of target...
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Secret GM wheat experiments begin in Australia
Australia’s first trial of genetically modified wheat and barley is under way near Narrabri, New South Wales in the south-eastern area of...
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The high cost of low teacher salaries
WHEN we don’t get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don’t blame the soldiers. We don’t say, “It’s these...
