Word: tasmania
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...Charismatic republican and investment banker on the political rise - if he retains his marginal Sydney seat. Said after the 1999 republic referendum that monarchist Howard had "broken this nation's heart." Has swiftly mastered a key portfolio but drawn criticism for approving a new pulp mill in Tasmania. Believed to support ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, in contrast to government position...
...list of first-rank Australian novelists, headed up by Murray Bail, Peter Carey and David Malouf--writers of exceptional power and social insight--is a considerable one. London has a brilliant biographer and diagnostician of past culture in Peter Conrad, an erudite and dark-minded expatriate from Tasmania...
...Tasmania the government is cutting down these 300 year old pines to make toilet paper for the Japanese market...
...poll has given Labor a lift, as has a perception that the sitting Member, Malcolm Turnbull, is egregiously ambitious and opportunistic even by politicians' standards. In addition, Turnbull may pay a price for being the Environment Minister in a government that has just approved a pulp mill in Tasmania's Tamar Valley and that's seen as slow to act on climate change...
Uribe said he confronted Velasquez with the information in a phone call in which the judge denied he had ever mentioned the President in his meeting with Tasmania. Nonetheless Uribe felt the need to publicly demand an investigation by the prosecutor's office into the paramilitary's allegations. The Supreme Court backed its investigator and accused Uribe of obstructing justice...