Tasmanian Times
Society
-
72630,000 properties lose Common Law rights to erect dwellings
The Tasmanian Greens today lodged a petition of over 500 signatures in Parliament drawing attention to 30,000 properties held in fee simple...
-
709
Hobart Airport hikes fees. Parking woe
There were bitter words last year between Hobart Airport and the airlines over proposed fee increases. It’s been done. HAC has hiked...
-
SMOKE POLLUTION COMPLAINTS GET HAND-BALLED AGAIN
Forest Principles Authority Hand-Balls Smoke Complaints to Environment Protection Authority The Tasmanian Greens today called on the Environment Minister, Brian Wightman, to...
-
ONLY solution is to stop the boats
The Gillard’s Government’s plan to ship 800 people who arrived here by boat without a visa, to Malaysia, in exchange for 4000...
-
970
A missed opportunity for the Forestry Peace Agreement
It was only later that afternoon that it struck me what a terrible missed opportunity I had just witnessed. Tasmania this week...
-
673
LABOR PRIORITISES GAMING INDUSTRY OVER WELFARE GROUPS
The Tasmanian Greens today called on the Premier and Treasurer, Lara Giddings, to revisit the Federal Government’s offer to trial pre-commitment gambling...
-
CONCERNS OVER INTERIM PLANNING SCHEME LEFT UNANSWERED
Known Errors Could Exist for Many Months The Tasmanian Greens today called for urgent clarification by the Minister for Planning, Bryan Green,...
-
838
Splinter group puts Tasmanian forest deal in doubt
AFTER a year of talks and despite significant progress, historic negotiations to end decades of conflict over Tasmania’s forests face collapse, with...
-
836
Deformities spark pesticide fears
A conflict of interest is causing the nation’s peak pesticide authority to fail in protecting people and animals from agricultural chemicals that...
-
966
Rally: Watch the march, hear the speakers … count the numbers
Watch the protest the ABC and other mainstream media chose not to cover … Watch HERE This comment by John Alford was...
