The News Review:
- Hydro Tasmania Three Peaks Race update
- Cruising the Gordon River
- National Easter road toll rises to nine
- Aged care interest free loans welcomed
- Three Peaks entrants near first stop
Hydro Tasmania Three Peaks Race update
Sail World – Mar 22, 2008
The pair completed the first of the Hydro Tasmania Three Peaks Race?s three marathons last night. The 65-kilometre run was not without difficulty with the heat of the day and physical exertion combining to seriously dehydrate the two athletes. But the race competitors? spirit has always been best displayed at the gruelling event?s most challenging moments. ‘We carried her pack for her for about half an hour and gave her the water we had some coke and electrolyte tablets’ Modern Living Carpet Court crewmember Nathan Fellows said.
Cruising the Gordon River
Toronto Star – Mar 22, 2008
Guinness black and utterly still the water eerily reflects the surrounding vegetation and the tree-shrouded peaks beyond. Most of the passengers gazing from the decks of the Lady Franklin are in awe of what they see during our cruise into this unspoiled temperate wilderness. "Welcome to the cleanest purest air on the planet" our skipper Graham Riddler announces. This is the Gordon River which flows into Macquarie Harbour on the west coast of Tasmania… "The Great Wall of China" Riddler says "only meets four. " The Gordon River is truly one of the wonders of the world. John Hagan is a freelance writer based in Hobart Tasmania. His trip was subsidized by Federal Hotels.
National Easter road toll rises to nine
NEWS.com.au – Mar 22, 2008
story-share –> THE deaths of a woman in Tasmania and a motorcyclist in Queensland have taken the nation’s Easter holiday road toll to nine. In Tasmania two people were trapped for more than 12 hours today after their car crashed off the Bass Highway and landed in a clump of trees hidden from the road. Help arrived only after the driver regained consciousness and called for an ambulance on his mobile phone following the crash near Latrobe. Police said the Leyland Mini was on the wrong side of the road before veering off the highway and travelling through the air for about seven metres. It then rolled more than five metres down an embankment coming to rest in a stand of pine trees 34 metres from the road about midnight (AEDT). Both the driver and his front seat female passenger were knocked out in the crash and the car remained unnoticed by passing motorists.
Aged care interest free loans welcomed
abc.net.au – Mar 22, 2008
The loans are an election promise that Labor hopes will create an extra 2500 aged care beds across the country. The Minister for Ageing Justine Elliott says the money will be set aside for areas of high need which includes the whole of Tasmania. Darren Mathewson from Aged and Community Services Tasmania says the money will help address the bed shortage. “It won’t be enough to fix the system. There’s certainly a need in Tasmania for capital infrastructure but there’s also a need to look at the operational costs on a daily basis” Mr Mathewson said. “At the moment we can’t keep up with the cost of care” he said.
Three Peaks entrants near first stop
abc.net.au – Mar 22, 2008
Event organisers say the yachts are travelling against the ocean tide so the pace has slowed. The first yacht to reach Flinders Island is expected shortly. 27 boats started from Beauty Point yesterday afternoon the second largest field in the event’s 20-year history. Haphazard Skipper Nick Edmunds has been in all 20 Three Peaks races.