Tasmanian Minister to visit Japan and Hong Kong
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- Tasmanian Minister to visit Japan and Hong Kong
- Green and pleasant isle
- Anti-pulp mill alliance grows as bulldozers get the go ahead
Tasmanian Minister to visit Japan and Hong Kong
abc.net.au – Apr 26, 2008
Ms Wriedt will host a dinner in Tokyo for companies that import Tasmanian products. She says she will also look to further promote Tasmanian food and other exports like Incat ships. Her nine-day trip will finish with a ceremony for Incat’s latest catamaran Natchan World. The Hobart-made ferry will make its first trip between two Japanese islands on May the second.
Green and pleasant isle
The Australian – Apr 26, 2008
My one-week visit in early December is a succession of bright sunny days (with the odd shower to keep things clean) pleasant (mosquito-free) evenings abundant fresh air fine food interesting ales beautiful surroundings traffic-free roads relaxed locals and an almost total absence of the posturing that has become part of life for big-city mainlanders. THE HUN TRAIL THERE’S a big woolly sheep sitting on the Huon Valley. Tasmania has made me quite a connoisseur of early morning fogs but this is the most delectable yet. Behind the wheel I feel like an airline pilot beginning my descent. This fertile region only an hour’s drive southwest of Hobart is well known as a food lover’s heaven and I have come to sample the produce of its orchards and vineyards its providores and restaurants. By the time I turn southeast away from the river towards the little town of Cygnet and the sea the sheep has up and shuffled off exposing a hot sun tempered by a stiff breeze from the D’Entrecasteaux Channel. Holiday houses hug the coast but they can’t mar the sensational views across the water to Bruny Island and beyond… It is past 10pm now. Darkness falls and the high sound of children’s laughter rings across the still-warm air. HBART TWN A FRIEND Tasmanian born and reared but long a resident of the wider world has informed me that Hobart’s Cat and Fiddle Arcade is not to be missed so after breakfast I set off downtown to find this architectural gem. A half hour later I’m standing in the middle of it street map in hand and totally flummoxed. Can this functional walkway with its smattering of utilitarian shops be what he was referring to? The cartoon-like metal cat mounted on a concrete wall above the doughnut shop suggests I’m in the right spot. There’s a clockface beside the cat and a metallic moon next to that. This I decide is where the action happens.
Anti-pulp mill alliance grows as bulldozers get the go ahead
Green Left Weekly – Apr 26, 2008
If passed these Regional Authorities — businesses wholly owned by government — will take control of council sewerage and water assets and also have the power to borrow money for infrastructure. Councils and others have spoken out against what they believe to be the first step in the privatisation of these public services. Kim Booth of the Tasmanian Greens questioned Lennon over whether the proposed Regional Authorities are destined to pay for the pulp mill pipelines to Long Reach and the effluent pipe “to its Bass strait dumping ground” and called on him to rule out using these regional boards “as a means of overcoming impediments to the construction of the Gunns’ water pipeline”. Lawyers for Forests which in 2007 filed against the federal environment minister and Gunns faces its second hearing in the Federal Court on April 30. The group is concerned about the mill’s adverse impact on the marine environment native forests and those species relying on those habitats. Meanwhile key anti-pulp mill groups are organising in a new alliance which brings together Tasmanians Against the Pulp Mill the Wilderness Society GetUp the Greens Environment Tasmania Lawyers for Forests Future Tasmania Timber Workers for Forests Students Against the Pulp Mill Tasmanian Conservation Trust local residents community leaders and health professionals. From: Australian News Green Left Weekly issue #748 30 April 2008.
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