The News Review:
- Jockey strike threatens Tasmanian racing
- Tasmania’s aging population
- Friends of the ABC misled
- Australia’s Apple Isle gets a taste for uranium
- He’s a lumberjack so you’re K
- Hope for devil tumour vaccine
- Probe call on abuse of elderly finances
Jockey strike threatens Tasmanian racing
The Age – Jul 24, 2007
Tasmanian Jockeys Association secretary Kevin Ring saidyesterday that the dispute over jockeys having to pay for their owncover had dragged on and that they would not ride after August 1until the issue was resolved. “Tasmanian jockeys are the only ones who have to pay for theirown accident cover. This has been going on for 19 months and we cansee little being done about it” Ring said. He said jockeys were partly covered under an interim deal struckwith the Tasmanian Thoroughbred Racing Council earlier this yearbut as part of the deal jockeys were assured that adequateworkers’ compensation would be in place for the start of the newseason.
Tasmania’s aging population
ABC nline – ABC nline – Jul 24, 2007
The Bureau’s social survey examines changes to Australia’s population between 2001 and 2006. There are more older people living in Tasmania than there were before 2001. In 2006 the median age in Tasmania was 38. 8 years more than two years higher than the national median age. The highest median age was 48. 7 years in Glamorgan-Spring Bay. The Bureau reported there are now fewer children under the age of 14 in Tasmania but overall the state’s population rose by about 0.
Friends of the ABC misled
NEWS.com.au – Jul 24, 2007
article-tools –> By Piers Akerman July 24 2007 12:00am IT’S an open secret that the Friends of the ABC is little more than a front organisation for the ALP and the trade union movement. Now a series of memos outlining the strategy for the Tasmanian branch of FABC to adopt in an endeavour to defeat the Howard Government is proof positive of the partisan nature of this so-called consumer body. The key to the operation is a two-page memo from FABC treasurer and former state ALP candidate Daniel Hulme. A former president of both the UTAS Student union and Tasmanian Young Labor Hulme’s draft election strategy says there is a need for action groups to convince voting FABC members that the ABC is under attack from the Howard Government. Curiously this was the theme of a wilfully misleading article by Greg Barnes in last Tuesday’s Hobart Mercury. In that article Barns complained that the ABC had been dumbed down because it aired the Tasmanian-produced program The Collectors on Fridays… Now a series of memos outlining the strategy for the Tasmanian branch of FABC to adopt in an endeavour to defeat the Howard Government is proof positive of the partisan nature of this so-called consumer body. The key to the operation is a two-page memo from FABC treasurer and former state ALP candidate Daniel Hulme. A former president of both the UTAS Student union and Tasmanian Young Labor Hulme’s draft election strategy says there is a need for action groups to convince voting FABC members that the ABC is under attack from the Howard Government. Curiously this was the theme of a wilfully misleading article by Greg Barnes in last Tuesday’s Hobart Mercury. In that article Barns complained that the ABC had been dumbed down because it aired the Tasmanian-produced program The Collectors on Fridays. His principle beef with the show appeared to be its success which he equated with an Australian obsession with material possessions that he felt was somehow related to Prime Minister John Howard. He also questioned the need for the ABC to have a magazine associated with a gardening program and asked why there is a cooking program on the national broadcaster.
Australia’s Apple Isle gets a taste for uranium
Mineweb – Jul 24, 2007
Author: Ross Louthean Posted: Tuesday24 Jul 2007PERTH – Minemakers Ltd an explorer with a diverse set of commodity targets on prospects in the Northern Territory Western Australia and Tasmania now believes it has at least one significant uranium target in Tasmania. Tasmania has been absent from the pegging rush for uranium prospects in Australia however Minemakers has some distinctive uranium targets to evaluate on its Rossarden prospects that takes in the Storeys Creek tungsten-tin project mined in the past by two companies. The company’s managing director Andrew Drummond told Mineweb that historical records showed six significant uranium occurrences in Tasmania and five of these are on Minemakers’ tenements. ne prospect explored by a company set up in the 1950s Tasmania United Uranium NL contained high grade mineralisation with past assays as high as 13.
He’s a lumberjack so you’re K
Sydney Morning Herald – Jul 24, 2007
Yesterday Kevin Rudd was smarter. He went to Tassie andannounced the Coalition’s policy instead which seems to have gonedown rather better on the whole. None of your union protests this time nor local Laborcandidates getting their undies in a bunch. Even the TassieGovernment smiled on the announcement flanked approvingly by thecorporate ranks of the logging industry.
Hope for devil tumour vaccine
ABC nline – ABC nline – Jul 24, 2007
Professor Woods says it’s important to maintain so-called “insurance populations” of the animal while more research is carried out. Disease-free devils are being bred at wildlife sanctuaries interstate and plans to introduce healthy devils to Maria Island on Tasmania’s east coast are being considered. The possibility of a vaccine is one of the topics for discussion at a lecture being held at the University of Tasmania tonight. Tags: environment endangered-and-protected-species science-and-technology animals research marsupials tasSearch for news.
Probe call on abuse of elderly finances
ABC nline – ABC nline – Jul 24, 2007
He says while some states have a regulatory system for non-professional attorneys that’s not the case in Tasmania. Mr Maloney says research to determine how widespread financial abuse is could be the first step to setting up a regulatory system in the state. “I think it would worthwhile if there could be some research done here on instances of abuse and what’s actually happening in Tasmania what’s the environment in Tasmania” Mr Maloney said. “So then we will have some quantitative and qualitative data which would inform the Government in its decision making. Tags: aged-care family-and-children older-people superannuation tasSearch for news.