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Tasmanian Freight Rail Revitalisation Programme (TFRRP)
2015-11-30 01:00:00| Railway Technology
The Tasmanian Freight Rail Revitalisation Programme (TFRRP) involves re-sleepering, re-railing and associated track upgrade works on Tasmanias major rail freight corridors.
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Tasmanian students experience auctioneering through competition
2015-08-24 07:16:48| Real Estate - Topix.net
With sweaty palms and nervous shakes, several students recently competed in an action competition in northern Tasmania to give them a taste for the profession of auctioneering. The competition was run by the Real Estate Industry of Tasmania and the students went through a 10 week training period before competing on the night.
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Fracking banned for five years by Tasmanian Government
2015-02-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Tasmanian Government will ban the controversial mining practice known as fracking for another five years. Fracking involves injecting liquid at high pressure into underground rocks to extract oil or gas, and the practice has sparked controversy in New South Wales and Queensland. Tasmanian Primary Industries Minister Jeremy Rockliff, who declared a one-year fracking moratorium in March 2014, considered 155 submissions on the subject. Mr Rockliff said there was uncertainty around fracking,...
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Australia: Coalition bid strip Tasmanian forests world heritage cover 'disappointing'
2014-11-09 21:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The head of the worlds leading conservation organisation has criticised the Australian governments attempt to strip world heritage protection from Tasmanias forests, as new data laid bare the vast number of ecosystems in Australia at risk of collapse. Julia Marton-Lefvre, director general of the IUCN, the body that advises the United Nations on conservation matters, told Guardian Australia it was disappointing that the Abbott government had launched a bid to remove 74,000ha of Tasmanian...
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Sydney octopuses heading south as Tasmanian waters warm
2014-10-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Sydney octopuses were usually found between southern Queensland and southern NSW. A Tasmanian researcher has found octopuses from Sydney are reproducing in Tasmanian waters. The common Sydney octopus was thought to have migrated south because of rising ocean temperatures. The creature was usually found between southern Queensland and southern New South Wales. Jorge Ramos, a PhD candidate from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), has been studying hundreds of octopus...
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