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CWA Tasmanian president Shirley Morrisby and national president Noela Macleod
2014-08-19 13:27:32| IT Services - Topix.net
CWA Tasmanian president Shirley Morrisby and national president Noela Macleod at the Tasmanian Country Womens Association conference at Camp Clayton This service may include material from Agence France-Presse , APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced.
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Unesco blocks Australias proposals to open up Tasmanian rainforest to logging
2014-06-25 12:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The UN has rejected a proposal from the Australian government to revoke the special protection afforded to 74,000 hectares of Tasmanian rainforest, in order to allow logging operations in the region to resume. The controversial request was unanimously rejected within just seven minutes at a meeting of the Unescos world heritage committee in Doha, as delegates from Germany, Colombia and Portugal argued against the delisting. The news agency Reuters reported that members of the Portuguese delegation...
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Tasmanian forest ruling: Abbott government says jobs will be lost
2014-06-24 09:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Abbott government has reacted defiantly to a stinging UN rebuke to its plan to remove world heritage protection from Tasmanian forest, claiming the rejection will result in job losses in the state. Unescos world heritage committee took just eight minutes to reject the Coalitions request to strip 74,000 hectares of Tasmanian forest from the internationally protected area at a meeting in Qatar on Monday night. Portugals delegate to the committee said the governments justifications for...
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UN rejects Australia 'feeble' bid to strip Tasmanian forest's heritage status
2014-06-23 18:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Unesco has unanimously rejected a feeble Australian government bid to reopen 74,000 hectares of Tasmanias world heritage area to logging. At its annual meeting in Doha, the Unesco World Heritage Committee said the Australian government had failed to provide compelling evidence that areas added to the site only last year were detracting from the overall value of the area. No committee members defended the Australian cause as the proposal was discarded in less than ten minutes. Portugals...
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Australia: Tasmanian forests on agenda as World Heritage Committee meeting gets underway in Qatar
2014-06-16 17:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has begun its annual meeting in Qatar, where a decision will be made on the Federal Government's application to have 74,000 hectares of Tasmanian forests delisted. The committee, meeting in Doha, is expected to deal with the matter later in the week. If the Government's application is successful, it would be a first for a developed country. The Government claims the area it wants delisted is already "degraded", having been logged before. Opponents say...
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