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Published: Tue 8 Apr 2014, 6:00pm

A meeting of the Protected Zone Joint Authority (PZJA) which oversees commercial and traditional fishing in the Torres Strait will be held this Wednesday on Thursday Island.   Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, [Read more]

Published: Tue 8 Apr 2014, 5:10pm

Staff at the Australian Antarctic Division near Hobart have been told some voluntary redundancies will be offered as the Environment Department absorbs a big budget cut. Topics: research, environmental-management, federal---state-issues, federal-government, antarctica, kingston-7050, hobart-7000, [Read more]

Published: Tue 8 Apr 2014, 4:20pm

The Liberal Government’s forest policy will plunge the Tasmanian forest industry into another six years of uncertainty and conflict. Labor Leader and Resources Spokesman, Bryan Green, said the policy announced [Read more]

Published: Tue 8 Apr 2014, 3:25pm

Lawyers, sentencing experts, a former Supreme Court justice and unions are all questioning the wisdom of the State Government’s promise to scrap suspended sentences from Tasmania’s legal system. The Labor [Read more]

Published: Tue 8 Apr 2014, 11:50am

The Tasmanian Government looks set to allow logging in hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest currently protected from harvesting. The Government will today outline its plan for tearing up the state's forest peace deal [Read more]

Published: Tue 8 Apr 2014, 10:40am

A SWATHE of native forest set down for permanent protection in reserves will be opened for future logging, the State Government has confirmed [Read more]

Published: Tue 8 Apr 2014, 9:05am

Will Hodgman must explain why the Liberal Government is not providing up to $400,000 worth of headworks assistance for the Myer redevelopment that is already in the Budget. Labor Leader, [Read more]

Published: Tue 8 Apr 2014, 8:35am

There are fears big Federal budget cuts could see jobs and research programs slashed at the Australian Antarctic Division in Tasmania. Topics: research, environmental-management, federal---state-issues, federal-government, tas, antarctica [Read more]

Published: Mon 7 Apr 2014, 9:20pm

The World Heritage-listed Macquarie Island has been declared free of pests after a near-seven-year campaign to eradicate its rats, rabbits and mice. The Tasmanian and Federal Governments jointly funded a $25 million eradication project in [Read more]

Published: Mon 7 Apr 2014, 3:55pm

Tasmanian Greens MP Kim Booth has been appointed the party's new leader. Former leader Nick McKim did not contest the position. [Read more]