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Waste National 08/01/09  It's time to stop and get off the Gunns pulp mill merry-go-round Bob McMahon The Age Opinion Tasmania; N06/01/09  

Waste National Finance doubts for mill Tom Arup The Age - with Andrew Darby Tasmania;

Waste National 05/01/09 Garrett shoots down Gunns hopes on pulp mill / Blow for Gunns planned $2.2 billion Tasmanian pulp mill. Ben Cubby The Age Breaking News / smh.com.au, with AAP Tasmania;

2008  

 23/08/08 Warning to Gunns over mill deadline ABC News Tasmania; August 08 Related

23/08/08 10,000 marchers target mill MARK WORLEY, The Mercury Tasmania; August 08 Related

23/08/08 Gunns' deadline dramas NICK CLARK The Mercury our highlighting Tasmania; August 08

22/08/08 Gunns 'unlikely' to meet mill deadline The Age Business / AAP Tasmania; August 08

22/08/08 Milne denied access to study on effluent MICHELLE PAINE, The Mercury Tasmania; August 08

21/08/08 Gunns shares in trading halt The Mercury Tasmania; August 08

20/08/08  Gunns' stocks keep sliding NICK CLARK The Mercury, Hobart Tasmania; August 08

16/08/08 Gunns to pull trigger on assets, The Age Business links Tasmania;  August 08

June  

State Forests 13/06/08 Reminder on costs in Gunns Legal contest - The Age, Letters Victoria; Tasmania;   

22/01/ 08 Scientists find fire retardant in Tassie devils AAP Tasmania;

 03/01/08 Maiden voyage breaks record Eden Magnet East Gippsland and Goolengook Tasmania; Victoria; New South Wales Comment

Island on the brink of catastrophe John Elder The Sunday AGE Tasmania; Dec 07

20/11/07 Uniting against the mill Richard Flanagan, The Age our highlighting Tasmania; Nov 07

 Forests National 18/11/07 Gunns might yet find the miller's tale has an unhappy ending James Kirby, The Sunday Age Business Tasmania; Nov 07

Tas pulp mill advertises for engineers AAP Tasmania; Nov 07

 Gunns and Forestry Tasmania agree on logging Andrew Darby, Hobart, The Age Tasmania; Oct 07 related our highlighting

National News 11/10/07 Gunns' double-barrelled dilemma The Age Business Day, Opinion Tasmania; our highlighting

National News 08/10/07 Pre-1788 Aborigines 'lived in houses'  AAP Queensland; Tasmania; Victoria; South West

Turnbull in trouble on mill pledge Andrew Darby, Hobart, The Age Tasmania; Oct 07

20/09/07 Ask new ANZ CEO not to support Gunn's pulp mill ; Letter From :- Luke Chamberlain, TWS; Tasmania; Sept 07

Time for clear goalposts on Gunns plan, The Age, Opinion Tasmania; Sept 07

National News 29/03/07 128 scientists voice mill fears; Andrew Darby, The Age Tasmania; Sept 07

Use our forests well The Age Opinion Tasmania; August 07

A project that will pulp a state Warwick McFadyen, The Age Opinion Tasmania; August 07

Pulp friction over Gunns' $1.5bn mill proposal; Philip Hopkins, The Age, Business Tasmania; August 07

Forestry blockade in Weld Valley ABC On-Line Tasmania; August 07

Police investigation into protestors claims of brutality ABC On-Line Tasmania; August 07 \

Logging activisits want extension to Hartz National Park ABC On-line Tasman ia; July 07

Police investigation into protestors claims of brutality ABC On-Line Tasmania; July 07

Anti-logging protesters arrested in Styx Valley ABC On-line Tasmania; July 07

Cable logging halted ABC On Line Tasmania; June 07

More anti-logging protests ABC On-LIne Tasmania; June 07

MEDIA RELEASE - COMMUNITY "COUGH-IN" WITH PULP MILL BACKER - MICHAEL FERGUSON TWS Tasmania ; Tasmania; June 07

Cable logging halted ABC On Line Tasmania; June 07

Forest reserve accidentally logged ABC On-Line Tasmania; June 07

LEAKED DOCCUMENT TORPEDOES JOB CLAIMS IN UPPER FLORENTINE. MEDIA RELEASE Tasmania; May 07

Truce between Forestry Tasmania and environmental activists ABC On-Line Tasmania; May 07

Climate National 29/05/07 Ocean temp changes linked to humans, AAP; Tasmania; Indonesia; Australia

GUNNS’ PULP MILL THIRST UP FROM 26 BILLION TO 40 BILLION LITRES MEDIA RELEASE Tasmania; May 07

Tasmania is the key to Labor making up lost ground on forests, The Age, Opinion Tasmania; May 07  

 April  

The Monthly Essays - Out of Control - The tragedy of Tasmania’s forests - Richard Flanagan Originally printed in The Monthly ( and still online ( Aug 2008 ) )  Tasmania; April 07

National News 29/03/07 Howard ignores own backyard in global forests plan;

Media release Tasmanian Wilderness Society Tasmania; March 07

MEDIA RELEASE -

Forest defenders maintain their stand as machinery moves back into the Upper Florentine valley. Tasmania; March 07

MEDIA RELEASE

RALLY CALLS ON LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS TO REJECT FAST-TRACK PULP MILL APPROVAL Tasmania; March 07

MEDIA ALERT

LENNON’S PULPMILL-APPROVAL PROCESS IS A SHEMOZZLE; No independence, and public locked out of sham assessment Tasmania; March 07

MEDIA ALERT –

PUBLIC PROTEST TODAY – PARLIAMENT HOUSE LAWNS Tasmania; March 07

National News 15/03/07 MEDIA RELEASE

GUNNS PULP MILL FIASCO- Wilderness Society calls on Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull to honour his predecessors’ commitment to the pulp mill assessment process Tasmania; March 07

MEDIA RELEASE –FOREST PRACTICES CODE BREACH IN THE UPPER FLORENTINE Tasmania; Feb 07

 LOGGING INDUSTRY PLAYERS ADMIT UNCERTAINTY OVER LEGALITY OF UPPER FLORENTINE LOGGING

- Despite this, police move in to break up forest defence camp MEDIA RELEASE Tasmania; Feb 07

UPPER FLORENTINE EXCLUSION ZONE EXPANDS PUBLIC LOCK OUT OF PUBLIC FORESTS MEDIA RELEASE Tasmania; Feb 07

FORESTRY TASMANIA FLOUT THE LAW - Precautionary principle should apply MEDIA RELEASE Tasmania; Feb 07

MIS: ONE RULE FOR LOGGERS, ANOTHER FOR THE REST Federal Government fund climate changing landclearing MEDIA RELEASE Tasmania; Feb 07 Links 2

National; 02/01/07 Green kayaker attempts Sydney to Hobart, The Age; New South Wales, Tasmania;

10/10/06 Bracks back Tassie water trade, The Age Tasmania; Victoria;

30/08/06  Minister lines the nests of orange-bellied parrots with $3m - Ben Doherty, The Age Port Phillip; South West; Gippsland; Victoria; South Australia; Tasmania;

29/08/06  $3.2m to save orange-bellied parrot The Age , AAP Port Phillip; South West; Gippsland; Victoria; South Australia; Tasmania;

16/08/06  Forests under threat from global warming, The Age

09/08/06 Tarkine: Senate move for World Heritage study - Greens Media Tasmania; August 06

 Pulpmill to consume public native forests while Gunns’ plantations get exported - TWS MEDIA RELEASE Tasmania; August 06

Trees deal faces axing, -SUE NEALES , Chief Reporter, The Mercury, Tasmania; June 06

05/06/06 Cabinet to order nuclear inquiry, -Katharine Murphy, The Age; Australian Capital Territory; June 06

Tassie pays price for its old growth, SUE NEALES, mercurynews.com Tasmania; May 06

Chipman rejects claims of long-term industry crisis - By SUE NEALES themercury.news.com.au Tasmania; May 06

Workers' champion quits in disgust - By SUE NEALES themercury.news.com.au Tasmania; May 06

Taxpayer funds used to build new road into Upper Florentine old growth - The Wilderness Society of Tasmania - MEDIA RELEASE Tasmania; - May 06

12/05/06 Wind farms halted as help dries up, - By Nassim Khadem, The Age

Forest hero’s arrest highlights Lennon-Howard failure- Tasmania; May 06

May 6, 2006 More plants and animals join 'red list' of endangered species, By Stephen Cauchi, The Age

FEDERAL BUDGET BOOSTS PUBLIC SUBSIDY OF PULP MILL - The Wilderness Society of Tasmania - MEDIA RELEASE Tasmania; May 06

Greens pledge on pulp friction, - By Andrew Darby, Hobart Tasmania; March 06

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Farmers resist revised Permanent Forest Estate Policy Tasmania; November 05

Pulp friction Claire Miller, - The Age, Business Tasmania; November 05

Tasmania Set For Pulp Mill Joy - the Department of the Premier - 1st November 2004