The News Review:
- It’s time to put Tassie on the map
- Mersey decision cause for concern in the Ambulance Service
- Prices will rise under emissions scheme warns Penny Wong
- Skaife keen to prove worth
- No finger on the trigger
- Police to get semi-automatics
It’s time to put Tassie on the map
NEWS.com.au – Jun 7, 2008
story-tools –> DOES Hawthorn’s deal with Tasmania put the state’s AFL prospects in jeopardy or keep the dream alive?. story-summary-list –> To me it’s a win for the Hawks and for Tassie. Hawthorn has secured its future and Tasmanians have a link to the game at the highest level. It was only a decade or so ago a merger was mooted between Hawthorn and Melbourne. Now the Hawks have taken over Tasmania and through their facility at Waverley Park have claimed the eastern belt of Melbourne as well… Hawthorn has secured its future and Tasmanians have a link to the game at the highest level. It was only a decade or so ago a merger was mooted between Hawthorn and Melbourne. Now the Hawks have taken over Tasmania and through their facility at Waverley Park have claimed the eastern belt of Melbourne as well. Tasmanians should be looking to capitalise on the popularity the Hawks have brought the game and invest in their future. If it had been my call I would have put a Tasmanian team in the competition instead of Port Adelaide in 1997. At that time Tassie was probably considered to be not quite ready but with more non-footy people waiting to be converted than Adelaide I would have thought Tasmania was viable. In effect a suburb got the nod ahead of a state and that irked Tasmanians.
Mersey decision cause for concern in the Ambulance Service
abc.net.au – Jun 7, 2008
The Health and Community Services Union (HCSU) says the decision will mean more work for the state’s stretched ambulance crews. Tasmania has the country’s longest ambulance response times. HCSU spokesman Tim Jacobson says the decision to once again run the Mersey as part of the state public hospital system will increase demands on the Ambulance Service. “[This] will obviously put some pressure on moving people across the north of the state” Mr Jacobson said. The HCSU has been calling for an extra $15-million a year for years warning inadequate funding means longer waiting times. “The longer people will wait and obviously the more risk there is for significant negative outcomes for people waiting for ambulances” he said.
Prices will rise under emissions scheme warns Penny Wong
NEWS.com.au – Jun 7, 2008
He said: "She was clearly laying out the costs of inaction. "Australian Greens leader Bob Brown agreed Senator Wong was on the "right track" but said the Government had a lot further to go to reorient Australia’s economy and society to tackle global warming. He wanted more action from Canberra to protect forests and a ban on the planned $2 billion Gunns pulp mill in Tasmania which he said would add two per cent to Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. "The public is way ahead of the body politic here. There’s more nous about the need for tackling climate change in the average classroom than there is around the Cabinet table" Senator Brown said. Share this article.
Skaife keen to prove worth
NEWS.com.au – Jun 7, 2008
This suits Skaife who will establish his second milestone in the sport in a year when he rolls his Team Red Commodore out for his 205th championship start for the two-hour practice session on saturday. That promotes him to share third spot with retired former sparring partner Glenn Seton on the list of most starts in the series behind John Bowe (225) and Peter Brock (212). Skaife will move past Brock at the Symmons Plains round in Tasmania in November the second time in a year he has surpassed a record set by the late Holden maestro. Skaife who was classed as securing his 38th round victory at Eastern Creek last year had in fact surpassed Brock’s mark at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide in 2000. A bungle over the confusing rules of that race where the Clipsal 500 winner is the driver who wins the Sunday leg meant he had not been credited with it before last year so Skaife officially has 39 round victories. Tander’s arrival beside him has put the pressure on Skaife who has a record of not letting a teammate have his measure for too long save for his opening seasons with HRT when a young Craig Lowndes stormed to title wins in 1998 and 1999. Tander holds a slender lead that started with his unbeaten run in the three heats at Hamilton New Zealand in April.
No finger on the trigger
The Australian – Jun 7, 2008
None will arise before the new senators taking their places on July 1. If a newly constituted Senate where the Coalition lost its majority rejected a government bill when it sat for the first time on August 26 it would hardly have an opportunity to debate and reject it a second time before early next year. While the Greens delight in making life difficult for the bigger parties as both sides learned to their cost in Tasmania it’s hard to think at this juncture of an issue that would so inflame them as to provoke a double dissolution. They couldn’t precipitate one without the help of Coalition senators or the two independents both of whom would be likely to lose their seats. Nor would an election a year or more earlier than necessary be in the Government’s best interests. The public really doesn’t like early elections especially when they’re transparently engineered for the benefit of the governing party. The earliest Rudd could decently call an election for the house and half the Senate is in August 2010.
Police to get semi-automatics
The Age – Jun 7, 2008
“There remains a problem with the police culture in Victoria and giving better guns at a time when we’ve had a number of deaths from police firearms over the last few years is not a case that has been well made. Another concern is the number of firearms that have passed from the police to the underworld he said. Police in the Northern Territory NSW Western Australia Queensland and Tasmania already use Glock semi-automatic pistols while South Australian police began trialling semi-automatics this month. Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu said Victorian police deserved the same choices of weapons as their colleagues in other states. “This is a very belated decision” he said. Until now semi-automatics have been used within the Victoria Police only by the special operations group and the special response unit. Ms Nixon said the purchase of the semi-automatics would be funded by the $10 million the Government had given Victoria Police “to think about a firearm for the future”.