Tasmania

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• Tasmania’s grip on opium poppy industry weakens as plant moves north

  21 Oct 2014: Island state still grows almost 50% of the world’s pharmaceutical opium poppies, but major factory will move to Victoria to avoid ban on crop imports

• Tasmanian devil killed at US zoo had skull crushed by asphalt block

  19 Oct 2014: Police investigating case believe the marsupial was killed either by workers or visitors at zoo in Albuquerque, New Mexico

• Richard Flanagan 'ashamed to be Australian' over environmental policies

  15 Oct 2014: Man Booker prize winner says he is saddened by the Australian government’s environmental policies and prime minister Tony Abbott’s statement that ‘coal is good for humanity’

• My journalism lectures are free from any hint of anti-Murdoch bias

  13 Oct 2014:

  Roy Greenslade invites News UK to infiltrate City University's lecture theatre to detect prejudice against News Corp

• Old foes team up to preserve Higgs Track access to Tasmania's fabled high country

  5 Oct 2014: Once on opposite sides, conservationists and volunteers who preserve mountain huts are building bridges to repair the Higgs Track

• Viva Las Hobart: David Walsh's new high-stakes art gamble

  30 Sep 2014: A plan by the Australian art-world eccentric to open an elite casino at Tasmania’s Mona is simply the latest in a long line of provocations, writes Van Badham

• David Walsh plans mini casino for Tasmania's Mona

  29 Sep 2014: Millionaire proposes 12-table, high-roller, no-poker-machine casino for international art lovers

• Tasmanian fires being fuelled by damaging winds

  28 Sep 2014: Five blazes still burning in state’s south after fires got close to houses and the Tassal fish processing plant in Dover

• Renewable energy target rallies held across Australia

  27 Sep 2014: Protesters gather in 30 locations calling for the 20% target to be retained at events organised by renewable energy lobby groups

• Tasmania to overhaul ‘draconian’ anti-protest laws aimed at forestry

  24 Sep 2014: Guardian Australia Amendments mean the planned legislation will not apply in shops, markets, professional offices and public places

• New bauxite mine gets go-ahead from Tasmanian government

  22 Sep 2014: The mine is the first of its kind to be approved in Australia in more than three decades

• War and peace – and war again? The battle for Tasmania’s ancient forests

  17 Sep 2014: For 30 years activists and loggers battled over Tasmania’s old-growth forests. Finally, in 2012, came a historic peace deal. But on 2 September the state’s newly elected Liberal government tore it up. So what next for both sides?

• Jacqui Lambie ready to take DNA test to prove she is Indigenous

  15 Sep 2014: PUP senator criticises Tasmanian Indigenous elder Clyde Mansell for questioning the truth of her claim

• Tasmania's anti-protest laws would have chilling effect on freedom, says UN

  10 Sep 2014: Proposed laws that would imprison protesters who disrupt businesses are probably in breach of human rights, say experts

• Jacqui Lambie tells Tasmanian Indigenous leader Clyde Mansell to ‘watch his step’ after questioning her heritage – video

  Video (58 sec), 9 Sep 2014:

  Palmer United party senator Jacqui Lambie is standing by her claims of Indigenous heritage after they were questioned by a Tasmanian Indigenous leader

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