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Tender for tipplers |
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Mar 06, 2010 - 8:33 AM - by Horse
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The GCCC have asked for expressions of intrest for the Tipplers Precinct. Hopefully some public areas will be incorporated in the plan
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12 Replies | 345 Views
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Crab Pot Ban |
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Mar 19, 2010 - 3:59 PM - by TimiBoy
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· Inverted crab dillies will be banned across the State from 2 April 2010.
· ONE (1)* turtle death in five years is the reason given by the government for the ban.
Your support is urgently required to revoke this unfair law and maintain YOUR RIGHTS TO FISH.
Contact the Fisheries Minister now and demand he reverse this outrageous decision.
Write, email, phone or fax:
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Big Population theory. |
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Mar 19, 2010 - 6:16 AM - by Lucky_Phill
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Big cities can reach 10m population: Ken Henry - Michael Stutchbury, Economics editor
- From: The Australian
- March 19, 2010 12:00AM
TREASURY secretary Ken Henry has suggested that Sydney or Melbourne could sustainably expand to 10 million people if governments corrected the national failure of infrastructure planning exposed by the global financial crisis.
That is much higher than the seven million population projected for the nation's two biggest cities by 2050 in last month's Intergenerational Report and would require an increase in Australia's "very low" levels of housing density.
Dr Henry suggested there might be a "productivity dividend" from a "more efficient distribution of Australia's population", which is projected to grow from 22 million to 36 million by the year 2050.
And there could... [Read More]
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Northern Blue Tuna trade. |
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Mar 16, 2010 - 7:23 AM - by Lucky_Phill
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Garrett rejects bluefin trade ban
ANDREW DARBY IN HOBART
March 13, 2010
Australia has refused to join the United States and the European Union in seeking a trade ban on imperilled northern bluefin tuna, sparking an outcry from conservation groups.
The fish's plight is seen as a key example of poor global fisheries management, and its fate a potential precedent for Australian tuna fisheries.
The decision by the Environment Protection Minister, Peter Garrett, to go for trade controls instead of the ban has angered the groups, but Australian tuna fishers said it was a sensible outcome.
Listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation... [Read More]
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