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- Melbourne man marries Tasmanian sister
- Australian Football League
- Search for immune gene in Tas Devils
- Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan
- Tas group plans to build own Mersey hospital
Melbourne man marries Tasmanian sister
NEWS.com.au – Jun 9, 2008
article-tools –> Penny McLeod June 09 2008 12:58pm A MELBOURNE man has married his Tasmanian sister in a moving ceremony yesterday. Few brothers or sisters would come as close to marrying a sibling as Michael Bullen did yesterday. The celebrant married his twin sister Louise and David McKinnon in a ceremony at Rosny Historic Centre. "I’ve been telling people in Melbourne that I’m going back to Tasmania to see my brother marry my sister" Michael’s older brother Andrew said. Mr Bullen co-conducted the ceremony with an authorised marriage celebrant. A coffee barista in Melbourne he has studied part-time to become a celebrant and will receive his licence later this year.
Australian Football League
NEWS.com.au – Jun 9, 2008
7 (13) Goals: Vic Metro: Lynch 4 Purves 3 Watts 2 Joyce Gilchrist Stanton. Best: Vic Metro: Lynch Banner Shuey Sloane Hurley Strauss. Tasmania: Robinson Salter Crichton Davies Hislop Milverton Allwright. Victorian Football League NORTH BALLARAT 5.
Search for immune gene in Tas Devils
abc.net.au – Jun 9, 2008
Scientists think the spread may have slowed because some animals were naturally immune. Felicity Ogilvie reports. (Sound of a Tasmanian Devil scream)FELICITY OGILVIE: Cedric the Tasmanian Devil is immune to the facial tumour disease. He’s from the island’s west coast and it’s hoped there may be other devils like him in the wild. The disease is moving east to west and David Sinn is monitoring the disease front at a place called Pencil Pine. DAVID SINN: So we’ve got pretty nice temperate north-west rainforest and it’s thick brush. It’s not the kind of forest that you’d be able to go walking through so we’re actually driving along forestry roads and hiking off of the road onto about 200 metres and putting our traps in the dense undergrowth… And this is really exciting because we imagine that in some cases these Devils will have an immune system which can recognise the FTD disease cells as foreign and can mount an immune response. FELICITY OGILVIE: Dr Belov found one wild Devil with the tumour has the same genes as Cedric the captive devil who is immune to the disease. The discovery has surprised her colleague at the University of Tasmania immunology professor Greg Woods. GREG WOODS: Initially we were disappointed but possibly what had happened was that the tumour had started to grow and when the Devil was identified the immune response actually hadn’t kicked in to remove the tumour. So if we go back to that Devil it may well have an immune system that may have responded and removed that tumour. FELICITY OGILVIE: The wild Devil may have fought off and survived the tumour. But the other possibility the scientists are considering is the Devil’s genes may not actually be an exact match to Cedric’s.
Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan
Daily Times – Jun 9, 2008
The left-hander had been hoping to earn a surprise recall to the Australian one-day side for the Caribbean tournament starting in March but was left out of a 30-man provisional squad. The 36-year-old has also battled knee and hip problems and consequently he said his motivation to play for the southern state of Tasmania in national competition has waned. Both factors prompted his decision to call stumps on a career that included two World Cup wins with Australia. “It got to the stage where injuries and pain were holding back my motivation and it got to the stage where I was finding it hard to get up for matches and that was probably a pretty clear indication that it was time to move on” Bevan said. “(The World Cup) was something that I always wanted to be a part of and I still felt I was a good enough player to be a part of the team. ” Bevan joins former Australian teammates Damien Martyn Glenn McGrath Justin Langer and legendary spin bowler Shane Warne in announcing their retirements this season.
Tas group plans to build own Mersey hospital
abc.net.au – Jun 9, 2008
FELICITY OGILVIE: Mr Martin you have constantly said that you want an intensive care unit as a hospital at the Mersey Hospital if you’re going to build your own community hospital will that community hospital have an intensive care unit?STEVE MARTIN: We’ll certainly be looking towards that. I mean we’ve got a population that’s growing at a very fast rate. Probably the fastest in Tasmania and the state and federal governments they’re taking services away from this area. Now to me I would be investing in the community where the people are living. They’re not doing it so we are and it would include the services that are required by the community. And that was as promised by the Howard and Rudd Government an ICU. STEVE MARTIN: But there’s been many investigations done by the State Government and now the most recent investigation by the Federal Government has found that having an intensive care unit at the Mersey Hospital would be unsafe.