The News Review:
- Daryn Cresswell leaves country owing $100000
- Heading South – Epicure – Entertainment – theage.com.au
- Debt transfer to save Hydro Tasmania millions
- Fishing for proof of Aboriginal ancestry
- Cabbie Butler replaces former premier
- Save the Devil
- Driver safety survey online
Daryn Cresswell leaves country owing $100000
The Australian – Jun 10, 2008
Cresswell 37 and a member of the Tasmanian and Sydney Swans teams of the century resigned as Devils coach last Wednesday saying he had lost the passion to coach and did not believe he would be reappointed after this season. He flew out of Tasmania that afternoon and is now believed to be in London. “I don’t want to go into that sort of stuff but there have been a few issues we’re trying to work through” Mellor said. “I’m going to give Daryn a bit of breathing space until he sorts himself out and then we will sit down and talk about those things. “There is an investment we are in and so on.
Heading South – Epicure – Entertainment – theage.com.au
The Age – Jun 10, 2008
There is the growing – and provocative – idea that Tasmania isbecoming the home of Aussie pinot noir. This isn’t coming directlyfrom the Tasmanians (although I’m sure they’re not about todisagree) but from others which probably lends the idea greaterpotency. First the newly-formed Wine Communicators of Australia anindependent association of wine professionals stirred the pot byholding tastings in Melbourne and Sydney last month on the theme”Is Tasmania Australia’s home of pinot noir?” I’m not sure thetastings answered the question but the fact that such a groupconsiders the topic a worthy one says something about Tassiepinot. Next came the news that Foster’s is bringing the Heemskerk labelback from the wine equivalent of Siberia – its former Cellarmasterswine club – and is going upmarket releasing a $40 Tasmanian pinotnoir under the rejuvenated brand. The Heemskerk name will befamiliar to anyone who was drinking wine in the 1980s… The Heemskerk name will befamiliar to anyone who was drinking wine in the 1980s. It’s good tosee it back in commission. Finally there’s the most persuasive argument of all inTasmanian pinot’s favour: climate change. The island has beensingled out in climate change research as one of the few Australianwine areas to remain relatively unscathed in climate changeprojections to 2030. Its maritime climate certainly helps (scientists predict therewill be less warming along coastal areas) as does its latitude. This is great news for Tassie wine producers and pinot makersbecause the pinot grape displays the greatest sensitivity of allgrape varieties to temperature. Ask Tassie pinot makers how their last couple of vintages havebeen and few recognise the heatwave conditions or the abbreviatedvintages of the mainland.
Debt transfer to save Hydro Tasmania millions
abc.net.au – Jun 10, 2008
The Legislative Council has voted unanimously in favour of a transfer of debt from the Hydro to Transend. The transfer will save the company about $15 million in interest repayments every year. The Treasurer Michael Aird says the Government could have bypassed Parliament. “It’s not necessary to obtain the approval of the Parliament for the transfer” said Mr Aird. “But the Government has decided for the sake of transparency and to allow for appropriate debate to seek the approval of both house prior to implementing the equity transfer.
Fishing for proof of Aboriginal ancestry
The Australian – Jun 10, 2008
Picture: Chris Crerar. module-item –> Despite his six years as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission regional councillor Mr Wolf has been knocked back for an indigenous fishing licence in his native Tasmania – on the grounds he is supposedly not Aboriginal. Mr Wolf told The Australian he was devastated by the rebuff confirmed in a letter from former premier Paul Lennon and since repeated by his successor David Bartlett. "When Lennon sent that I was absolutely devastated – it was worse than when I was diagnosed with cancer" said the fisherman 58 from the village of Stanley northwest Tasmania.
Cabbie Butler replaces former premier
NEWS.com.au – Jun 10, 2008
Mr Butler stood as a Labor candidate alongside Mr Lennon at the March 2006 state election. Under the state’s system first preference votes for Mr Lennon at the election were recounted and redistributed to other nominated candidates not already elected MPs. Today following the countback the Tasmanian Electoral Commission announced that Mr Butler had been elected as the latest member for the southern electorate of Franklin. Mr Butler will tomorrow join Labor’s majority ranks in the 25-member lower house. In the state’s Upper House today independent MP Sue Smith became the first woman to take a term as president of the Legislative Council replacing Don Wing in the role. Health Minister Lara Giddings became Tasmania’s first female deputy premier after Mr Lennon stepped down and David Bartlett replaced him as premier. Share this article.
Save the Devil
Hindu – Jun 10, 2008
The Tasmanian devil a feisty marsupial that lives only in the Australian island state of Tasmania was deemed an endangered species this week by the state’s government. The government had previously classified the creature as vulnerable. But its more critical status comes in response to a fatal epidemic of devil facial tumour disease which has wiped out large numbers of the animal. “The change in the devil’s status reflects the real possibility that this iconic species could face extinction in the wild within 20 years” Tasmania’s Primary Industries Minister David Llewellyn said in a statement. The devils’ disease is one of just two known cancers able to spread like a contagious disease and is transmitted when one devil bites another.
Driver safety survey online
abc.net.au – Jun 10, 2008
The Opposition’s Infrastructure spokesman Peter Gutwein wants to gauge the community’s reaction to a recent coroner’s findings into the death of a 16 year old Hobart boy in a car crash. Mr Gutwein says he wants parents and young drivers to take part in the survey so that he can convey their reactions to parliament… “As a result of the Coroner’s findings the Coroner made a series of recommendations. “These recommendations were all to do with younger or novice drivers and relate to matter such as limiting the number of people that a novice or provisional driver can have in their vehicle putting curfews on novice or provisional drivers” he said. “Here is Tasmania we seem to lagging somewhat in regards to the measures implemented in other states and I’d like to hear from the Tasmanian community what they feel about the sort of recommendations that the coroner has made in this particular case. The survey is available at petergutwein. comTags: community-and-society road-accidents state-parliament liberal-party safety tas hobart-7000 launceston-7250.