1. Bandicoots, beware!
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ELECTIONS , *WOOD pulp industries & the environment , *PULP mills -- Design & construction ,AUSTRALIAN politics & government ,TASMANIAN politics & government - Abstract
The article focuses on a proposed wood pulp mill at Bells, Bay, Tasmania, that has emerged as a contentious issue in Australia's elections scheduled for November, 2007. Environmentalists have made preventing the plant's construction a priority, and opposition is so fierce Minster of the Environment Malcolm Turnbull could lose his seat in Parliament. The ruling Liberal party trails the Labor opposition in opinion polls.
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- 2007