http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal/taxonomy/term/174/all en http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal/2013/01/21/tasmanian-bush-fires-sign-of-world-to-come <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> The image of kids in the water clinging to a dock, under a fire-red sky, captured the situation. The great Australian heat wave of 2013 also struck the southern-most part of the country, the island of Tasmania. Maybe this is the future anywhere trees grow, as global warming heats the planet.</p> <p>Professor David Bowman is at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, teaching and researching Forest Ecology. He's a published expert on fire in the earth system. </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Geography:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/geography/australia">Australia</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Keywords:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/climate-change">climate change</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/science">science</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/environment">environment</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/tasmania">Tasmania</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/australia">Australia</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/forest">forest</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/fires">fires</a></div></div></div> Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:06:51 +0000 Anonymous 8321 at http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal/2012/10/26/forest-witness-tasmania-groundswell-tasmania-whats-happening-on-the-ground-in-the-north-e <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> Forest Witness – North East Tasmania – 26/10/12</p> <p>This week in the North East of Tasmania, activists from the group Groundswell documented the ongoing destruction of forests located in independently verified High Conservation Value (HCV) forests.</p> <p>NL115H is an 80 Hectare logging coupe, on the Western foothills of Ben Lomond National Park at Fisher’s Tier, only 40mins drive from the Tasmanian city of Launceston. It has been left out of the 430,000Ha of ENGO nominated reserve, but is within the 572,000ha of independently verified HCV forest. </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Geography:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/geography/australia">Australia</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Keywords:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/protest">protest</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/logging">Logging</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/tasmania">Tasmania</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/activism">activism</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/forest">forest</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/taann">Taann</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/wedge-tailed-eagle">Wedge tailed eagle</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/forest-witness">forest witness</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/iga">iga</a></div></div></div> Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:11:55 +0000 Anonymous 7320 at http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal/2012/10/04/tarkine-world-heritage-now <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> MEDIA RELEASE 3/10/12</p> <p>Tarkine – World Heritage Now!</p> <p>A group of activists have gathered at the community forum today in Launceston to send a clear message to the Labour Government that the Tarkine needs an emergency world heritage listing.</p> <p>T-shirts reading “TARKINE HERITAGE LISTING” were displayed outside the community cabinet forum at the Launceston College on Brisbane Street. Members of the newly formed environmental advocacy group GroundSwell maintained a silent peaceful vigil as the cabinet continued inside. </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Geography:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/geography/australia/tasmania/launceston">Launceston</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Keywords:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/protest">protest</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/mining">mining</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/environment">environment</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/tasmania">Tasmania</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/gillard">Gillard</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/tarkine">Tarkine</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/world-heritage">world heritage</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/community-cabinet">community cabinet</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/groundswell">groundswell</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/venture">venture</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/burke">burke</a></div></div></div> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:11:31 +0000 Anonymous 7084 at http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal/2012/04/02/olive-branch-offered-on-ta-ann-markets-campaign-in-tasmania <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> Environment groups have offered to suspend their markets campaign in Japan for one month while forest peace talks proceed, on the condition that logging ceases in the 572,000 ha of verified high conservation value forests whilst negotiations about protecting them take place.</p> <p>“It’s a moratorium for a moratorium,” said Peg Putt of Markets for Change. </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Geography:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/geography/australia/tasmania">Tasmania</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Keywords:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/environment">environment</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/logging">Logging</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/tasmania">Tasmania</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/huon-valley-environment-centre">Huon Valley Environment Centre</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/ta-ann">Ta Ann</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/the-last-stand">The Last Stand</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/forest">forest</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/markets-for-change">Markets for Change</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/observertree">ObserverTree</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/markets-campaign">markets campaign</a></div></div></div> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 06:07:14 +0000 Anonymous 5710 at http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal/2012/02/29/tell-me-lies-pinocchio-joins-campaign-against-tassie-forest-destruction <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Bryan Green got a surprise this morning - the Deputy Premier of Tasmania was fresh off the plane from his much vaunted trade mission to China and Japan, selling out Tasmania's forests, and he was confronted with a huge walking, talking Pinocchio. The Last Stand crew got together with the Huon Valley Environment Centre and Code Green to give him a warm welcome back to Oz. </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Geography:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/geography/australia">Australia</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Keywords:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/climate-change">climate change</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/protest">protest</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/forests">forests</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/environment">environment</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/logging">Logging</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/tasmania">Tasmania</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/ta-ann">Ta Ann</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/deputy-premier">deputy premier</a></div></div></div> Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:37:37 +0000 Anonymous 5398 at http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal/2011/02/20/tasmanian-conservationists-continue-forest-vigil-cable-loggers-sent-back-to-old-growth-fo <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><i>Huon Valley Environment Centre Press Release 18.2.11:</i>“Conservationists have today returned to the threatened Picton Valley, where cable loggers have been sent back to clearfell an old growth forest area just weeks before a crucial moratorium deadline. One conservationist has climbed the cable logger and twenty five people are protesting in the forest. The Huon Valley Environment Centre is calling for the state and federal governments to take action to halt the loss of high conservation value forests,” Huon Valley Environment Centre’s spokesperson Jenny Weber said.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Keywords:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/logging">Logging</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/tasmania">Tasmania</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/huon-valley-environment-centre">Huon Valley Environment Centre</a></div></div></div> Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:25:06 +0000 Anonymous 2700 at http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal/2010/09/11/tasmania-logging-contractor-convicted-over-sledgehammer-assault <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> Three forest contractors from Tasmania have been convicted of assault and sentenced to 70 hours community service for violently attacking forest activists locked on in a car with a sledgehammer, kicking one in the head. The assault which occurred in the Upper Florentine Valley was captured by another protester <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzm1RBqCFWE" rel="nofollow"> on video</a> from a hidden position. </p> <p>Below is the coverage from <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/national/loggers-assault-a-rampage-20100910-1551q.html" rel="nofollow">The Age</a> on the case. </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Geography:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/geography/australia/tasmania">Tasmania</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Keywords:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/logging">Logging</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/tasmania">Tasmania</a></div></div></div> Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:00:18 +0000 Anonymous 1718 at http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal/2010/04/21/greens-sell-out-for-power-in-tasmania <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> The Tasmanian Greens under the leadership of Nick McKim have joined the pro-business, anti-environment and corrupt Tasmanian ALP to form a Coalition government in exchange for two cabinet positions. This actions reflects how the Green party can be trusted to be an agent of true, radical change in Australia. </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Geography:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/geography/australia/tasmania">Tasmania</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Keywords:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/tasmania">Tasmania</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/greens">Greens</a></div></div></div> Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:25:39 +0000 Flowerpower 1038 at http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal/2009/11/15/gunns-20-trial-update <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> Gunns Ltd's case against the remaining Gunns 20 defendants will go to trial in February 2010, more than five years after the first writs were originally served in December 2004.</p> <p>The case is now before Justice Forrest who has estimated that the trial, when it finally arrives, will run for up to five weeks. He has determined that the trial will be heard before a judge only, no jury.</p> <p>The case has already cost an estimated $3 million and is likely to cost much more by the end. It is already considered the longest running and most expensive case of its kind in Australia's legal history. </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Geography:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/geography/australia/victoria/melbourne">Melbourne</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Keywords:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/forests">forests</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/tasmania">Tasmania</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/free-speech">free speech</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/gunns">gunns</a></div></div></div> Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:43:37 +0000 Anonymous 548 at http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal/2009/08/04/tassie-forest-activists-shut-down-weld-valley-to-loggers <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> Tasmania’s Logging onslaught in Weld Valley Halted<br /> Media Release - 5th August 2009 </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Geography:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/geography/australia/tasmania">Tasmania</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Keywords:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/climate-change">climate change</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/forests">forests</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/tasmania">Tasmania</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/weld-valley">weld valley</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/old-growth">old growth</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/biodiversity">biodiversity</a></div></div></div> Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:32:22 +0000 Anonymous 295 at http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal/2009/06/14/thousands-of-donors-rescue-top-green-politician-from-bankruptcy <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> Thousands of Australians have rescued Australia's top Green politician, Senator Bob Brown, from a legal bill that would have bankrupted him. He ran up the bill defending his native Tasmania's magnificent old growth forests against logging.</p> <p>In a note of thanks for donations to court costs he said the action against him was "typical of the pressure tactics used by the native forest logging industry".</p> <p>Here's the text of a round-robin email from him: </p> <p>Dear Friend, </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-5 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Keywords:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/logging">Logging</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/tasmania">Tasmania</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/greens">Greens</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/bob-brown">Bob Brown</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/legal-tactics">legal tactics</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/indymedia.org.au/drupal/keywords/bill">bill</a></div></div></div> Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:46:38 +0000 Diet Simon 133 at http://localhost/indymedia.org.au/drupal