Issue No.12 September 2003
Forests policy ... the questions keep coming ... the publicity gets worse
Another national program ponders Tasmanian forestry policy
and asks ... why?
HAG
It's time
For too long, Tasmanians have been crying out for reforms which
end forestry’s ability to ride roughshod over the community's wishes.
BENEDICT BARTL and SIMON GATES
PLUS:
Top piece ...
Letters
Greens' Recherche Bay website weapon
The Greens have launched a website in their campaign to fully preserve Recherche Bay from clear-felling.
LINK
Out, damned trucks
Yet another distressed citizen of Tasmania has given voice to his
pain over the bane of present-day living for many people - the dreadful night noise intrusion caused by logging trucks.
THE ROVING EYE
Damn good of you Rich, or should that be Dr Rich?
I find that our
Governor-designate, R. Butler, has reinvented the role of Guv of this fair
state ...
APHRODITE DRINKWATER
Mesmerising Justus
...
Neumann is one of the most creative people living in Tasmania and an actor
who is mesmerising on stage ...
MARGARETTA POS
Crikey turns the tables
...
Crikey.com's Hilary Bray turns a forensic gaze on the pokies' deals... a subject close to tasmaniantimes.com's
heart:
Come in, Spin Doctor
And, Hag wonders, will gambling figure in
new Governor Richard Butler's wide-ranging observations on
Tasmania:
The Mercury ... about
which Greens leader Peg Putt had some interesting observations:
Good questions, Peg
LINKS
I went to school with him, so he's beyond reproach
...
The integrity of not bowing to the ‘I’ve known him since law school’ philosophy
is fundamental to any decent justice system and should be properly
and effectively supported - in the face of the abuse and blustering
pomposity it may engender ...
AND
An invitation
JOCELYNNE SCUTT
Ken Park
...
...
So, what's the fuss all about?
MARK PEGG finds out ...
Logging and the devils
...
Your wrong, Kevin; no, you're wrong, Eddie; No, you're right, Kate!
THE AGORA
PLUS:
Who is listening, Mr Bacon...?
Hitting the mainland ... the food ... the wine ... the footy
...
...
what could one do? ... Launch oneself onto the big island to our north
for a fest of family, food, football, forgetting about being crook,
and handing out scarves
...
BEVERLEY BRILL
Two years on from September 11
...
... increasing intolerance has become the hallmark
of an uncertain Australia and threatens to unravel its multicultural values
...
PETER HARRY
Clive and the Governor
...
In her book on Butler, The Peacebroker, Tania Ewing
reports how Richard’s older brother, Peter, who was studying
music at the uni, introduced Richard and his then girlfriend, Susan Ryan,
to the theatre and literary crowd there, which included Hughes, Greer,
Bruce Beresford, writer Madeline St John - and Clive James ...
THE OLD BEAR
Unsound policy
...
The draft (noise) policy is deficient in many other respects apart from its non-readability.
...
THE ROVING EYE
PLUS:
All gummed up...
Forestry divide
...
It's all in Jim's head...
NEIL CREMASCO
Links ... top reads
...
Don't miss these ...
THE POSTMAN
Saturday afternoon, a chard, and a chicken...
Pluck the cork from a quaffing chard, fire up the oven and spend the afternoon in the kitchen with these recipes ...
ELAINE REEVES
Vin extra-ordinaire ...
Liquid Gold will become essential reading... a review
DAVID HURBURGH
Judy's going nowhere
...
Aphrodite takes leave to differ with political pronouncements on the fate of
Attorney General Judy Jackson on ABC Radio last week and in The Mercury this
week ...
APHRODITE DRINKWATER
PLUS:
Judy agrees...
The Examiner...
The Court Jesters
Chris Puplick looks at the role of the court jester
in 13th century Europe and examines the governments of today
...
Radio National
Pitiless,
empirically absurd
...
Keith Windschuttle's take on Tasmanian Aboriginal history is
dangerous
and wrong
...
ROBERT MANNE
PLUS:
Many deeds of terror...
NAOMI PARRY
PLUS:
Manne in Tasmania...
Robert Manne, Henry Reynolds and James Boyce ...
Correcting the Premier
A report on how an item of history has been righted in Hansard and how with it
Premier Bacon has been corrected for a bad mistake of fact he made in State Parliament.
.... THE OLD BEAR
Gunns v Greens... the Mayne analysis
Links and a long Mayne perspective.... CRIKEY
PLUS:
A different view on old growth, sawmills, addictions ...
Letters
Gunns v Greens...
Stephen Mayne, the procreator of the irreverent Sceptics' Bible, Crikey, is anticipating with enormous
relish tomorrow's (Friday, August 29) Extraordinary General Meeting of Gunns Ltd. Gunns v. Greens ... the Crikey debate
CRIKEY on the loose
PLUS:
A different view on old growth and sawmills ...
Letters
Peter Carey and James McAuley...
"I have a very strong feeling I shouldn't be here. But I am," Carey began.
"I can't tell you how peculiar it is to be here to deliver the McAuley
Lecture."
...
MARGARETTA POS
Manifestly excessive...
As much as I or any of us dislike the politics of Ms Hanson a judicial wrong
has been done to her. The sentence imposed by Wolfe CJ is manifestly
excessive
...
JAMES CROTTY
PLUS:
I agree, James ...
Letters
Pauline stripped bare...
But why let her off so lightly? Why not stick her
behind razor wire or an electric fence for precisely the longest period of
time any child has spent locked up in immigration detention in this country
... ?
NATASHA CICA
That's not the REAL New Tasmania...
Mr Castles and Ms Pafitis The REAL New Tasmania
should really take time out for a good old reality check
...
TIMBER JACK
The REAL New Tasmania...
... This reflected what we had heard Tasmanians
say they wanted for Tasmania. This was a big,
bold dream, not the hyped, small, dumbed down thing
the Government is currently peddling
...
GERARD CASTLES and ANNA PAFITIS
PLUS:
Thanks ...
Letters
PLUS:
What the Greens reckon ...
A Press Release
Goodbye Judy (boo-hoo), hello Justin...
The redoubtable and enormously respected Judy Tierney is about to cap her pen. Hag's
special correspondent Aphrodite Drinkwater has the drum on her successor
...
HAG
The public demands ...
We are being accused of vandalism - ironically, by nations like Britain who
have already lost all, or nearly all, of their original forests. For
overseas visitors, the notion of forests untouched by an axe is magnetic.
DUNCAN KERR
PLUS:
Peter Carey in the Styx
The Mercury
PLUS:
Bacon pledge on parts of Recherche
The Mercury
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