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Forestry groups and environmentalists go their own way
A forestry roundtable to thrash out a way forward for the industry in Tasmania has been sidelined in favour of private talks among environmentalists and the timber sector.

BP chief quits role in stricken Gulf
A day after his controversial performance at a congressional hearing in Washington, BP chief executive Tony Hayward is being moved aside.

Activists 'liberate' bluefin tuna
Environmental activists from the Sea Shepherd group say they have "liberated" some 800 bluefin tuna caught illegally off the coast of Libya.