The News Review:
- Road fatality in Northern Tasmania
- The death dealers
- Campbell Town Show survives where others fold
- Dr. Patrick Michael Theodore Fernando
Road fatality in Northern Tasmania
ABC Regional nline – ABC Regional nline – Jun 24, 2007
The Ambulance Service says two cars collided on the Bass Highway near Westbury around ten past seven this morning. It says seven people were taken to the Launceston General Hospital with injuries ranging from very serious to minor. A hospital spokesman has confirmed that one person has since died. f the others three are in a serious but stable condition and three are stable. The affected area of the Bass Highway has been closed and traffic is being diverted around the ld Bass Highway.
The death dealers
The Age – Jun 24, 2007
Barely one in 20 shipping containers is searched sothat’s unlikely. Even if systematic searches were done at big ports such asMelbourne and Sydney officials might not be as efficient at somesmaller ports around Australia. Such as in Tasmania for instancenot just Hobart but sleepy Burnie and Devonport. Underworld lore has it that most new black market pistols arrivein Melbourne from the south across Bass Strait. If “the Territory”is the Deep North Tasmania is the Deep South. Before the PortArthur massacre in 1996 Tasmania was one of four states andterritories with much laxer gun laws — and enforcement —than in more heavily populated Victoria and NSW. A sparse population scattered over a large area of wilderness atradition of hunting and fishing and a rural-based economy meant ithad more in common with outback Queensland or the NorthernTerritory than with Victoria… Such as in Tasmania for instancenot just Hobart but sleepy Burnie and Devonport. Underworld lore has it that most new black market pistols arrivein Melbourne from the south across Bass Strait. If “the Territory”is the Deep North Tasmania is the Deep South. Before the PortArthur massacre in 1996 Tasmania was one of four states andterritories with much laxer gun laws — and enforcement —than in more heavily populated Victoria and NSW. A sparse population scattered over a large area of wilderness atradition of hunting and fishing and a rural-based economy meant ithad more in common with outback Queensland or the NorthernTerritory than with Victoria. Gun use there reflected that —at all levels of society. In a place where many people are relatedor connected gun enthusiasts include police prison and Customsofficers as well as farmers fishermen and forestry workers someof whom resented the post-Port Arthur laws that demanded they handin certain weapons.
Campbell Town Show survives where others fold
ABC Regional nline – ABC Regional nline – Jun 24, 2007
Australian Broadcasting Corp. ther rights may be held as detailed in text… Demand and prices fell and then stubbornly failed to improve even after the 4. 7 million bale stockpile was cleared a decade later. Growers deserted the industry and in Tasmania production fell from 150000 bales in the late ’80s to 100000 bales in the late ’90s. GERGINA WALLACE: You’d know you could fire a cannon off and you wouldn’t have hit anybody in the shed. Yeah I think it was very depressing for many years. PIP CURTNEY: With falling attendances and entries the committee knew it had to act if the show was to survive. ANDREW CALVERT: And it’s just like breeding sheep – you gotta put a bit of new blood in every now and again and it’s the same with the show.
Dr. Patrick Michael Theodore Fernando
Sunday Times.lk – Jun 24, 2007
He was 67 years old at the time of his death and was the life of our family. He emanated love from his very being and he extended it not only to his immediate family but to the many little children he healed. This is why there were unexpected numbers both at his funeral service in Tasmania and at the Thanksgiving Service in Sri Lanka. My uncle had accomplished many things in life he had still more dreams to fulfil and we least expected him to be taken so soon but God knows best and I guess God did not want him to suffer at all. I have very few recollections of his younger days but I gained some valuable information from Uncle Jaycee’s (my uncle’s closest and very special friend from schooldays and later at Medical College) tribute to him at the Thanksgiving Service we had and also by listening to snippets revealed by various members of the family. My uncle was the life and soul of every party the mischievous one in school always getting into trouble and doing all the naughty things my grandmother detested. He was famous for his trumpet playing and rocked the Royal-Thomian big matches in his day.