The News Review:
- Forestry Tasmania signs most significant deal ever
- NZ Council invests in Tasmanian farms
- Motorsport.com: News channel
- The mystery cryptic animal of northern New South Wales
- A brief history of 7NT ABC Launceston
Forestry Tasmania signs most significant deal ever
abc.net.au – Feb 26, 2008
5 million cubic metres of plantation and native forest timber a year for 20 years. The company will receive about $350 million over the life of the agreement. Hans Drielsma from Forestry Tasmania says the contract stipulates if the market base price for pulp wood falls by 1% the price his company receives from Gunns will drop by only three-quarters of a per cent. Drielsma says if the price increases by 1% Forestry Tasmania’s return will go up by one-and-three-quarters of a per cent. “When things are good we get a really good return and that means that you know the company can afford it because when things are good they should be making a reasonable return and then we get a really sort of extra return” he said. “When things are not so good our losses are somewhat attenuated so we feel that that provides you know that’s a pretty good buffer.
NZ Council invests in Tasmanian farms
abc.net.au – Feb 26, 2008
The New Plymouth District Council now has a 74 per cent stake in Tasman Farms Limited which owns Van Diemen’s Land Company a Royal Charter company founded in 1825. Tasman Farms general manager Colin Glass says while the settlement only came through yesterday it is unlikely there will be major changes to the 23 dairy farms and one beef and sheep property. “We’re going through a process a transition process from the old boards of both Tasman Farms and the Van Diemen’s Land Company to the new boards and those changes will unfold over the next week or so” he says. “So what changes and strategy eminate from that really do remain to be seen but by and large it is business as usual for the operations in Tasmania”.
Motorsport.com: News channel
Motorsport.com – Feb 26, 2008
Event Director Mark Perry is happy with the results his team hasachieved after some of the biggest changes in Targa Tasmania’s 17-yearhistory. “We’re stoked” Perry said. “We’ve got 350 applications and it lookslike we are going to break the 300 barrier for actual starters maybeeven stretch it further. It’s great for the event and the promotion ofTasmania… “We’re stoked” Perry said. “We’ve got 350 applications and it lookslike we are going to break the 300 barrier for actual starters maybeeven stretch it further. It’s great for the event and the promotion ofTasmania. The record field for Targa is 299 starters achieved in the 2000millenium event which ran for six days. The biggest field ever for afive-day Targa is 291 a benchmark set in 2002 and 2004. Every aspect of Targa Tasmania is continuing to grow with the recentchanges to the rally gaining support from locals and competitors. “To have gone from 76 Classic entries two years ago to more than 120 inthis year’s event is fantastic.
The mystery cryptic animal of northern New South Wales
abc.net.au – Feb 26, 2008
Like the koala and the kangaroo the thylacine is a unique Australian marsupial with the female rearing two or three pups in a backward-opening pouch. It differs in that it hunts other animals for its food. Believed to be extinct in Australia for perhaps 3000 years it continued to survive in Tasmania until 1936 when the last captive thylacine died. Known there as the Tasmanian Tiger or wolf it succumbed to hunting habitat destruction and perhaps introduced diseases. It was feared that it may attack livestock but a recent study of the detailed records kept by the big sheep stations in Tasmania listing the cause of all sheep deaths found almost no evidence that the thylacine ever attacked domestic animals. It fed almost exclusively on small bushland animals such as wallabies bandicoots and bush rats. Since its supposed extinction there have been hundreds of reported sightings in both Tasmania and the Australian mainland.
A brief history of 7NT ABC Launceston
abc.net.au – Feb 26, 2008
the session was abruptly cut off and 7NT was switched back to Hobart where a programme of rubbish (to the ordinary listener) was submitted. 1936 Aug 15: Mercury “Listeners in Northern Tasmania are at a loss to understand why the Australian Broadcasting Commission has discontinued the programme by Launceston performers which until recent months ranked as among the most popular programmes from regional station 7NT. Listeners spoken to yesterday said they deplored the withdrawal of the Launceston artists. Aug 31: Mercury “There are at least 10 well-known performers in Launceston who used to give fairly regular programmes and those spoken to state that apart from an occasional broadcast by two of their number they have not given a programme since last November.