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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Leon Compton |Brooke Van Nooten |David Reilly
Federal Labor has pledged $24 million in support of Tasmania's Boyer Paper Mill, which was recently sold to developer David Marriner. The mill's general manager Patrick Dooley explains how the money will be used and the plan to transition away from coal-fired thermal energy generation to renewable energy. "[Coal] is an integral part of our production process," Mr Dooley tells ABC Tasmania Morning's Leon Compton.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Leon Compton |Brooke Van Nooten |David Reilly
Tasmanian Braddon independent MP Craig Garland will put forward a motion in state Parliament calling for a referendum on the Macquarie Point stadium. It comes after the state government announced it will abandon the planning process and introduce legislation to get the project through. Craig Garland tells Leon Compton on Tasmania Mornings he will move a motion calling for a referendum when Parliament returns in early May.
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1 week ago | 
abc.net.au | Leon Compton |Brooke Van Nooten |David Reilly
The Tasmanian government will introduce legislation to push the Macquarie Point stadium through, bypassing the planning process. The project was going to be assessed by Tasmania's Planning Commission, but Business, Industry and Resources Minister Eric Abetz tells Leon Compton on Tasmania Mornings the TPC's report is "argumentative". The Minister responds to questions about the actual cost of the project and whether private investors will help fund it.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Leon Compton |Brooke Van Nooten |David Reilly
Jacqui Lambie has made some strong comments about Tasmania's salmon industry this week. The Tasmanian Senator tells Leon Compton on ABC Statewide Mornings the industry lost her support when the companies were bought out by multinationals. "They don't care, they can't care about clean, green Tasmania," Senator Lambie says.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Leon Compton |Brooke Van Nooten |David Reilly
This week is Gather Round where the AFL makes its way to Adelaide, with every game played in South Australia. It provides a massive tourism draw; every hotel, winery, and restaurant will be busy. But it comes at a cost. Figures estimate the state pays the AFL between $16 and $20 million for the privilege. Tasmania Devils Chair Grant O'Brien tells Leon Compton on Tasmania Mornings, the club has put its hand up.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Leon Compton |David Reilly |Brooke Van Nooten
A community group on Tasmania's east coast is urging the state government to prioritise the feral deer problem, after a rehabilitated wetland was destroyed by the animals. The landcare group at Seymour has been rehabilitating the wetland near the Douglas Apsley National Park since the 1980s.
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2 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Leon Compton |Brooke Van Nooten |David Reilly
Is Tasmania doing enough when it comes to fuel reduction in the landscape? Is the strategy of targeted smaller burns around critical infrastructure the answer? The former head of Forestry Tasmania Evan Rolley tells Leon Compton we need to return to the earlier practice of conducting large-scale burns, later in Autumn.
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Leon Compton |Brooke Van Nooten |David Reilly
The state government hasn't ruled out scrapping the stadium as a Project of State Significance (POSS) and introducing special legislation to get it through the parliament, following the release of a draft report by the Tasmanian Planning Commission that found the project to be overstating benefits and understating costs. Tasmanian Greens leader, Rosalie Woodruff, tells Leon Compton on Tasmania Mornings the stadium will ruin Tasmania and the deal with AFL must be renegotiated.
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3 weeks ago | 
abc.net.au | Leon Compton |Brooke Van Nooten |David Reilly
A Tasmanian Planning Commission panel has released a scathing draft report on the proposed Macquarie Point stadium. The report says the proposed stadium would be "overbearing", that it risks Tasmania's credit rating, has minimal social and community benefits, and does not serve a purpose as an urban renewal project.
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1 month ago | 
abc.net.au | Leon Compton |David Reilly |Fred Hooper |Brooke Van Nooten
In last night's federal budget, Treasurer Jim Chalmers promised three days of subsidised child care will be made available to all families earning less than $533,000, replacing the existing "activity test" for those days of care. Childcare centre owner/operator, Chris Symons, tells Leon Compton on Tasmania Mornings that finding three days of early learning is "nearly impossible" in Tasmania. "There is no path to making that possible. I think the biggest question is around workforce.
