The News Review:
- Small-town Tasmania given the epic treatment
- Pulp fiction
- CSIR seeks Tasmanian volunteers to test online Total Wellbeing Diet;…
- Mill may cost state jobs and $3.3bn
- Gunns takes control of Auspine
- Live sheep export breached Animal Welfare Act claim campaigners
- Rudd announces hospital takeover plan
Small-town Tasmania given the epic treatment
Telegraph.co.uk – Aug 23, 2007
His new novel is set on the east coast of Tasmania in an imaginary community called Wellington Point where everyone talks in monosyllables and every second monosyllable is ‘mate’. This is very much small-town Australia with the vices and virtues of small towns the world over. ‘In Wellington Point’ writes Shakespeare ‘any singularity or achievement was regarded as an excess. ‘ It could be Garrison Keillor talking about Lake Wobegon Minnesota that prim bastion of small-town America.
Pulp fiction
The Australian – Aug 23, 2007
Haunted by the ghost of Mark Latham whose 2004 forest-protection policy cost Labor at least three marginal seats including two in Tasmania the major parties have fast-tracked assessment of Gunns’s project. Gunns which owns the Tamar Ridge vineyard one of the closest to the mill site at Long Reach has dismissed the likelihood of significant impact on wine production from the mill’s operations. However Tasmania’s peak wine group Wine Industry Tasmania which has a Gunns representative on its board has bluntly warned the mill’s allowable emission of odours and air pollutants threaten to "devastate" the region’s 27 vineyards visited by 150000 tourists each year. Tasmania’s peak fishing body the Fishing Industry Council has made similar dire predictions about northern rock lobster abalone scallop and shark fisheries if dioxins contaminate seafood stock. Both industries are frantically lobbying Turnbull and the Upper House to ensure at the very least Gunns faces automatic fines and mill shutdown if it breaches the guidelines. But such controls appear absent from the state permit conditions. State planning minister Steve Kons has written to vineyard owners saying Gunns will aim to limit days when odour escapes the mill boundaries to 10 per year.
CSIR seeks Tasmanian volunteers to test online Total Wellbeing Diet;…
Free with registration – M2 Presswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 23, 2007
–>CPYRIGHT 2007 M2 Communications Ltd. M2 PRESSWIRE-23 August 2007-CSIR: CSIR seeks Tasmanian volunteers to test online Total Wellbeing Diet; CSIR is calling for volunteers in Tasmania to participate in a study into delivering the highly acclaimed CSIR Total Wellbeing Diet via the web(C)1994-2007 M2 CMMUNICATINS LTD RDATE:23082007 “We are seeking people who are overweight and are motivated to lose weight” says CSIR Project leader Dr Peter Clifton. “Volunteers need to be daily web users and over 18. CPYRIGHT 2007 M2 Communications Ltd.
Mill may cost state jobs and $3.3bn
The Australian – Aug 23, 2007
A report by local and national economists prepared for a Tasmanian business roundtable and released last night suggests the $2billion mill could cause a net economic loss to the state. A group of businesses in the Tamar Valley angered at the Tasmanian Government’s refusal to conduct a cost-benefit study or risk analysis of the controversial project commissioned their own. Conducted by Wells Economic Analysis headed by University of Tasmania economist Graeme Wells and the Melbourne-based Economist@Large it was presented to members of the state’s upper house last night. Gunns’s analysis conducted by Monash University predicts the project will add $6… A report by local and national economists prepared for a Tasmanian business roundtable and released last night suggests the $2billion mill could cause a net economic loss to the state. A group of businesses in the Tamar Valley angered at the Tasmanian Government’s refusal to conduct a cost-benefit study or risk analysis of the controversial project commissioned their own. Conducted by Wells Economic Analysis headed by University of Tasmania economist Graeme Wells and the Melbourne-based Economist@Large it was presented to members of the state’s upper house last night. Gunns’s analysis conducted by Monash University predicts the project will add $6. 5per cent to the Tasmanian economy and an additional $894million in extra tax revenue between 2008-2030.
Gunns takes control of Auspine
ABC nline – ABC nline – Aug 23, 2007
“They’ve extended the period of the offer three times and it’s just dragged out a bit but it was always an outcome that was realistic. Auspine managing director Adrian DeBruin has also bought more shares this week and now owns just over 30 per cent of the company. Relief among timber workersAuspine workers in Tasmania are relieved that Gunns has taken a majority holding. ne employee Dean Smith says it offers job security. “People have been too scared to go out and buy a new car or their first house” he said. “With Gunns and Auspine combined I think there’s a fairly good future in the north-east for everybody. Tags: company-news forests rain-forests-and-forest rural timber sa adelaide-5000 mount-gambier-5290 tas launceston-7250Search for news.
Live sheep export breached Animal Welfare Act claim campaigners
ABC nline – ABC nline – Aug 23, 2007
The claim follows news that more than 1600 sheep out of 71000 which left Tasmania for the Middle East last year died from malnutrition and disease on the voyage. The figure is in an Australian Quarantine Inspection Service report released after a Freedom f Information request by Animals Australia. Jennifer Beer from Against Animal Cruelty Tasmania says the deaths are a breach of the state’s Animal Welfare Act. “Which states a person must not do any act or to do any duty which causes or is likely to cause unreasonable and unjustifiable pain or suffering of animals. “Now knowing that Tasmanian sheep are not as strong as mainland sheep and do not travel well it is wrong to send them you know live export” said Ms Beer. Tags: law-crime-and-justice animal-welfare laws rural livestock animal-welfare sheep-production quarantine tasSearch for news… Jennifer Beer from Against Animal Cruelty Tasmania says the deaths are a breach of the state’s Animal Welfare Act. “Which states a person must not do any act or to do any duty which causes or is likely to cause unreasonable and unjustifiable pain or suffering of animals. “Now knowing that Tasmanian sheep are not as strong as mainland sheep and do not travel well it is wrong to send them you know live export” said Ms Beer. Tags: law-crime-and-justice animal-welfare laws rural livestock animal-welfare sheep-production quarantine tasSearch for news.
Rudd announces hospital takeover plan
ABC Regional nline – ABC Regional nline – Aug 23, 2007
These days Tony Abbott’s approach is more cautious and as we’ve seen more targeted. TNY ABBTT: The more I reflected on this the more convinced I was that the practicalities of change were very difficult and that’s why the Howard Government has said that what we should do is try to do this with one hospital. We’re doing this at the Mersey in Tasmania. Let’s use this as a test case. Let’s see how it goes. MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: But this is not just about health. This is also an answer from Kevin Rudd to the recent Howard Government’s refrain about a lack of substance.