The News Review:
- Z Minerals Will Close Nickel Mine
- Hawks cash in on premiership win
- Incentives for mainland buyers to attend the Tasmanian Premier …
- Racing: Abell set to take the reins
- A tougher challenge
- Sturges sees jobs boost at Bell Bay
Z Minerals Will Close Nickel Mine
Wall Street Journal
–>Z Minerals Will Close Nickel Mine ArticleCommentsmore in Asia » MELBURNE — Diversified miner Z Minerals Ltd. said it is closing down its Avebury nickel mine in Tasmania state as falling prices make the operation unprofitable. The closure at Avebury comes less than four months after.
Hawks cash in on premiership win
Melbourne Herald Sun Australia
story-summary-list –> The Hawks have already sold 30087 memberships for 2009 up from 19214 at the same time in 2007. With 22 per cent new members Hawthorn expect to beat last season’s record membership of 41686. Club president Jeff Kennett said he was delighted at the number of new or lapsed members who had signed up and at the growth of membership in Tasmania. “The team has shown over the last few seasons that there are exciting times ahead for the club and it is encouraging that so many supporters have backed the club as financial members” said Kennett. “Tasmanians continue to get behind the club with 3753 members already signed up for the 2009 season of which 29 per cent are new members to the Hawks. ” The Hawks claim to be the first AFL club to sign 30000 members before Christmas and believe the figure suggests the target of 50000 can be achieved.
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Incentives for mainland buyers to attend the Tasmanian Premier …
Harness Racing in Australia Australia
The first 10 people who make application to attend the sale and register as a buyer will each receive a $300 travel allowance. Furthermore any buyer from the mainland that purchases a yearling at the sale will receive a $500 travel allowance for each horse to travel to the mainland. “This will encourage people from the mainland to travel to Tasmania to attend our sale” sales co-ordinator Peter Dow said. “You will be surprised with the quality of horses on offer.
Racing: Abell set to take the reins
Tasmania Examiner Australia
Mr Aird said both boards were crucial to the continued success of the Tasmanian racing industry. “This is an exciting new era for Tasmanian racing and the members of these boards will spearhead the reforms necessary for the industry to grow and flourish in a very competitive environment. ” The Tasmanian Racing Board will take over the governance and administration powers formerly vested in Tote Tasmania. The three racing code councils will be abolished with their functions transferred to the new board and racing director. Sitting on the Integrity Assurance Board with Mr Cooper will be deputy chairwoman Kate Brown Madeleine gilvie Leigh Mackey and Eva Plachta. They will adjudicate appeals arising from the statutory decisions of the racing director.
A tougher challenge
Tasmania Mercury Australia
In August I wrote that after 16 years as a vegetarian Jen had switched to eating meat — as long as she had been "completely responsible for the well-being of those animals". Now Jen and Johan and their families have undertaken to only eat food produced in Tasmania. Also for the next four months they will eat nothing bought from supermarkets — the food has to bartered or purchased with money made from selling their surplus produce. They've just sold four and a half pigs — half the pig comes back to them mostly as hams and bacon — so they are cashed up. Jen also hopes to be "grid neutral" in terms of power consumption essentially a reduction of about 95 per cent after recently installing $7500 worth of solar panels on the roof. n Christmas Eve Johan is cooking a traditional Swedish dish of lamb with dill sauce at his place in Kingston.
Sturges sees jobs boost at Bell Bay
Tasmania Examiner Australia
“It will maximise productivity through providing up-to-date facilities at Bell Bay. ” Nationally Mr Sturges said the development would pump $1 billion into the Australian economy. He said the project was vital for Tasmania's future and would not be to the detriment of other Tasmanian ports. “It's absolutely critical because containerised freight is anticipated to double over the next 10 to 15 years” he said. “We're almost at maximum capacity at Burnie and Devonport is working near to maximum capacity so it's absolutely critical we get the space here. “In tandem with this project we'll have a rail realignment project worth $9 million happening so we're about providing 21st century facilities and a 21st century gateway for containerised freight into Tasmania and out of Tasmania. ” Mr Sturges said the submission to Infrastructure Australia had been well received by the Federal Government.