Tasmanian Times
Society
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764The Great Disruption
Sometimes the satirical newspaper The Onion is so right on, I can’t resist quoting from it. Consider this faux article from June...
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How Crikey kept on trucking
Crikey founder Stephen Mayne on how the website survived the lean early years Ten weeks after Crikey.com was launched on 14 February...
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RSPCA inspector’s shocking final case
SADISTIC and gleeful filmed killings of possums by stabbing, incineration and explosives have left even experienced RSPCA inspector Frank Bingham shocked. Any...
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Spectacular regional icon honoured at Tasmanian Architecture Awards
A regional building described as a ‘spectacular icon for imaginative civic regeneration and community identity’ has taken out the highest accolade at...
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Stop to bank funding
Here’s this week’s Big Picture with the news organised and linked as you like it presented even though our government has made...
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Frank Fenner sees no hope for humans
FRANK Fenner doesn’t engage in the skirmishes of the climate wars. To him, the evidence of global warming is in. Our fate...
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Peace in Tasmania’s forests?
Tasmanian anti-forestry protestor, Barnaby Drake, recently announced that he was leaving the state. As he explained on the Tasmanian Times website “…...
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Sea Shepherd Updates – Operation Blue Rage updates – Japan Dives Deep into Depravity
http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-100612-1.html Operation Blue Rage: Day Five of the Mediterranean Patrol Saturday, June 12th, 2010 Location: Off the Coast of Libya This morning...
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Vast riches of Afghanistan
Now we know why we’re there … it’s for the Blackberries! U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html?th&emc=th WASHINGTON —...
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Plantation reprise (Part 2)
In my previous piece about plantations I described how the pulp & paper (P & P) industry relied on low inputs prices...
