The News Review:
- Elusive fox the new Tasmanian devil
- New Commodore for Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania
- Drivel really is in the detail
- Turnbull under pressure over pulp mill project
- Australia Wide on ABC2
- GREENS MVE T SECURE PARLIAMENTARY SUPPRT FR HLY TRINITY
Elusive fox the new Tasmanian devil
New Zealand Herald – Aug 30, 2007
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New Commodore for Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania
Sail World – Aug 30, 2007
Photo: RYCT’ Prominent Hobart yachtsman and yachting administrator Alastair Douglas has been elected Commodore of the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania one of Australia?s senior yacht clubs. His election is the culmination of more than 25 years of active participation in sailing and volunteer support for yachting for which he has been honoured with an AM (rder of Australia Medal). Alastair replaces Marion Cooper who has served the past three years as the first woman Commodore of the RYCT in fact the first woman to achieve that flag rank at any ‘Royal’ club in Australia. As Immediate Past Commodore Marion continues on the Board of the RYCT and as chairperson of its mariner development committee. RYCT members have also elected David Weir as Vice Commodore and Clive Simpson as Rear Commodore.
Drivel really is in the detail
NEWS.com.au – Aug 30, 2007
article-tools –> By Piers Akerman August 30 2007 12:00am PRVING that wealth celebrity and an Eastern Suburbs address are no guarantee against stupidity a number of publicity-friendly voters in Malcolm Turnbull’s Wentworth electorate have joined multi-millionaire businessman Geoffrey Cousins to oppose the building of a Tasmanian pulp mill. According to The Australian Financial Review Cousins a sometime adviser to the Government on Telstra was convinced to act after reading an article in the Melbourne-based Left-wing magazine The Monthly. That article by fifth-generation Tasmanian Richard Flanagan was certainly capable of flooring the casual reader if only for the number of flaws it contained. After reading the piece he emailed Mr Flanagan offering his services. "He said although he was not a religious person he felt they (the rainforests) were a ‘beautiful place a holy place’" Mr Flanagan told the AFR. "He said ‘If what you say is true… I am prepared to put my reputation on the line’. "As this column reported three months ago the Federal Fisheries Forestry and Conservation Minister Eric Abetz exposed the falsehoods in the article in an address to the biennial conference of the Institute of Foresters of Australia and the New Zealand Institute of Forestry. Mr Abetz a Tasmanian who actually does know something about forestry as opposed to Mr Flanagan said the essay told "more untruths than Pinocchio on a bad day". Mr Abetz made the point that Mr Flanagan claimed "the great majority of Tasmanians appear to be overwhelmingly opposed to old-growth logging" and asked if this is so why the Greens the only party with a policy to completely end old-growth forestry in Tasmania polled just 17 per cent of the vote at the 2006 state election – a decline on the previous election. He also cited the 2004 federal election noting that Labor supported by the Greens lost two House of Representative seats and a Senate seat while the Greens’ vote went backward. Mr Cousins plans to letterbox some 50000 copies of Mr Flanagan’s error-packed article around Wentworth and the neighbouring seat of Kingsford Smith held by pposition environment spokesman and multi-millionaire former rock star Peter Garrett. How many trees that would otherwise have been fighting the good fight against C2 and presumably global warming have given their lives to promote these lies is not known.
Turnbull under pressure over pulp mill project
ABC Regional nline – ABC Regional nline – Aug 30, 2007
Under pressure in his own seat from a group of well-heeled adversaries Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull has delayed the federal assessment the Gunns pulp mill by up to six weeks. This could put it slap bang in the middle of the federal election campaign where caretaker conventions would require Labor to be consulted about any decision. To complicate matters further the Tasmanian Premier says Mr Turnbull has acted illegally. In Canberra Chief Political Correspondent Chris Uhlmann reports. CHRIS UHLMANN: In the dying days of the 2004 election the then Federal Labor leader Mark Latham announced a Tasmanian forest protection package. Timber workers were horrified and the Prime Minister pounced. JHN HWARD: I remain and the Commonwealth Government remains fully committed to the Regional Forest Agreement and to its processes… Timber workers were horrified and the Prime Minister pounced. JHN HWARD: I remain and the Commonwealth Government remains fully committed to the Regional Forest Agreement and to its processes. (Sound of applause)CHRIS ULHMANN: Labor lost two Tasmanian seats and the federal election. Three years on and Tasmanian forestry is again causing federal election angst with Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull under intense pressure to stop Gunns proposed pulp mill. A group of well-heeled adversaries is threatening his hold on the marginal seat of Wentworth so yesterday he decided to extend the pulp mill assessment by up to six weeks. That could put the decision in the middle of the federal election where the Government says caretaker conventions would require Labor to be consulted. Tasmanian Premier Paul Lennon is irritated by the mainland interference and believes the way the delay was announced might be illegal.
Australia Wide on ABC2
ABC Regional nline – ABC Regional nline – Aug 30, 2007
The adventurist 19th century governor’s wife who didn’t fit the mould has inspired paintings. JHN LENDIS ARTIST: You get hooked into this idea of this governor’s wife being carried across the Tasmanian wilderness in the Palanquin like a queen. the idea that the surveyors took two years to cut a track from Hobart to Macquarie Harbour so that this could be done. The whole kind of imposition of that colonial power onto the landscape was really quite fascinating. LUCY SHANNN: The works aren’t portraits. Instead they position an ethereal Jane Franklin.
GREENS MVE T SECURE PARLIAMENTARY SUPPRT FR HLY TRINITY
Tasmanian Greens – Aug 30, 2007
Greens Member for Denison and shadow spokesperson on Heritage Peg Putt MHA hopes that Parliament will support her concerns over the Anglican Bishop’s call to close the church rather than fund repairs and believes that a combination of public money and private fundraising can rescue Holy Trinity. “This important landmark building should be restored and maintained for use by parishioners and members of the community and is part of Tasmania’s historic built heritage so appreciated by visitors to our state” Ms Putt said. “I have tabled a motion to secure Parliamentary support for the proposal that both the State and Commonwealth governments contribute funding towards restoration of the church structure to facilitate it’s gradual restoration over the coming years. “This would complement the Hobart City Council offer to fund a restoration plan and private fundraising efforts.