The News Review:
- Tasmania on tsunami alert
- Tigers warm up with Coast pilgrimage
- pen debate is needed
- Tas feels effects of small tsunami
- Drought could reproduce ‘World War II food shortages’`
Tasmania on tsunami alert
NEWS.com.au – Sep 30, 2007
article-tools –>September 30 2007 04:03pmA potential tsunami threat has been dropped for the coast of southeast Australia but maintained for Tasmania after an earthquake in the Southern cean. The undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 7. 6 hit south of New Zealand. A Bureau of Meteorology spokesman said the threat was now "minimal” but the bureau issued a tsunami bulletin warning people in coastal areas in Tasmania and southeastern mainland Australia to listen to news updates.
Tigers warm up with Coast pilgrimage
Sunshine Coast Daily – Sunshine Coast Daily – Sep 30, 2007
?But it is worthwhile once we got here. A little pain was worth the gain. ? Tasmania has continued it?s tradition of using the Sunshine Coast as a pre-season training camp base arriving yesterday for a week-long stay. And while the Tigers have usually been joined by one other state team this year there are three other teams with them on the Coast. Tasmania South Australia Victoria and New Zealand A will take part in a quadrangular one-day series at Maroochydore and Caloundra over the next week. ?This would be the fourth or fifth year we?ve been up here? Coyle said. ?It?s an excellent pre-season tour for us.
pen debate is needed
NEWS.com.au – Sep 30, 2007
But he managed to make the point that he crossed the floor on principle to support those who believed al-Qaeda trainee and Taliban recruit David Hicks should be returned to Australia. He believes that standing up for the principle of justice in the Heiner matter demands the same sort of moral courage. In Tasmania Michael Hodgman QC one of the most experienced legal minds in politics rose against the wishes of the Lennon ALP government to declare that he was not pushing a political agenda but "pursuing truth and justice which is the solemn duty of every one of Her Majesty’s attorneys-general and shadow attorneys-general in the states of Australia”. He said he wasn’t surprised the Lennon Government had refused leave to table the 66-count indictment prepared by Rofe QC because "the (ALP) Government has the numbers”. "When those who sought the truth and justice in this case fought hard for a full and independent inquiry into the scandal the Goss Labor government in Queensland Premier Wayne Goss and his chief of staff Kevin Michael Rudd now Leader of the pposition in the Australian Parliament had all the evidence shredded and destroyed” he told the Assembly. "I need say no more than has been said in a letter to the former premier of Queensland Peter Beattie signed by a number of distinguished jurists including a former chief justice of the state of Western Australia and by a number of eminent lawyers as well as a quite separate letter signed by the former chief justice of the High Court of Australia Sir Harry Gibbs all of them calling for a full inquiry into this outrageous scandal and disgraceful cover-up. ” He said he was "satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that a prima facie case had indeed been made out by Rofe QC but had been told by the Leader of the Tasmanian Government in the House: "We will not give leave to table the document for obvious reasons”.
Tas feels effects of small tsunami
ABC Regional nline – ABC Regional nline – Sep 30, 2007
A tsunami warning was issued mid-afternoon after a large undersea earthquake off New Zealand. The warning which initially included coastal New South Wales and Victoria as well as Tasmania has been cancelled. Senior forecaster Simon McCulloch says the effects were minimal with swells estimated to be around 20 centimetres. He says the tsunami’s effects were noticed about half an hour later than predicted. “We’ve also had some reports of perhaps some unusual swells in the Derwent as well so we are seeing some effects from the tsunami” he said. “It’s not particularly high but it was delayed on the original prediction.
Drought could reproduce ‘World War II food shortages’`
NEWS.com.au – Sep 30, 2007
"Water’s scarce around Bundaberg and the Lockyer Valley in Queensland. Then in the Murray-Darling there’ll be nil production. "Tasmania produces 70 per cent of Australia’s processed vegetables but there’s not enough water in storage there to put a crop in" he said. Share this article.