The News Review:
- Australia Facing Shark ‘Plague’ After Three Attacks in Two Days
- Genetic sameness could be factor in Tasmanian tiger extinction
- British adventurer attempts to row solo around the world
- Skills Institute replaces TAFE Tasmania
- Reeves to contest Rally Tasmania
- Hatfield stuck in Tasmania
- Spray paint ban in graffiti clamp down
Australia Facing Shark ‘Plague’ After Three Attacks in Two Days
Bloomberg
A 25-year-old man was attacked yesterdaywhile snorkeling about 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Sydney. 11 a 13-year-old girl was bitten by a 5-meter shark offthe coast of Tasmania state and a 31-year-old male was assailed offthe New South Wales north coast. ?A plague of sharks has been attracted to the shore and theyare in the middle of a feeding frenzy? Brown said from Ingleside28 kilometers north of Sydney. ?That means not only are there moreof them they?re bigger as well. ? New South Wales Primary Industry Minister.
Genetic sameness could be factor in Tasmanian tiger extinction
Science News
An international group of scientists used powerful new technology to decode mitochondrial and some nuclear DNA from two thylacine museum specimens. The researchers report their findings online January 13 in Genome Research. ?It?s looking like the thylacines were sort of on their last legs? says Webb Miller a genomicist at Pennsylvania State University in University Park and lead author of the new study. Thylacines were carnivorous marsupials that resembled dogs with tiger stripes.
British adventurer attempts to row solo around the world
Telegraph.co.uk United Kingdom
By Bonnie Malkin in Sydney Last Updated: 3:29AM GMT 13 Jan 2009liver Hicks 27 was refused permission to set off on his 15000-mile round trip from New Zealand after authorities deemed the ocean expedition too perilous. They argued Hicks would probably capsize and that the hazardous conditions of the Southern cean would endanger the rescue teams who went to his aid. But undeterred Hicks has relocated his starting point to southern Tasmania where police and marine authorities disapprove of the “inherently dangerous” mission but have less power to stop him. Hicks now plans to set off in his high-tech custom-made rowing boat The Flying Carrot before the end of the month. The 24-foot Kevlar craft is covered with solar panels and a wind generator to power Hicks’s communications equipment. It also boasts a radar reflector designed to make the boat look a lot bigger than it actually is on the radar screens of passing container ships. Hicks will be secured to the boat with a lifeline and shares the craft with his food 50 litres of drinking water 10 pairs of oars a life raft survival suit and – for company – a CD player.
Skills Institute replaces TAFE Tasmania
Tasmania Examiner Australia
The Skills Institute replaces TAFE Tasmania as the training centre for work related studies under Premier David Bartlett's Tasmania Tomorrow reforms and was officially back at work last week new chief executive Malcolm White said yesterday. The institute had not publicly announced its new name more than a week after opening because it wanted to contact the State's major employers first Mr White said. “We believed that our first requirement was to inform the major employers – we are very much a business model now” Mr White said. “TAFE officially closed on December 31 so now the Tasmanian Polytechnic will be operating courses focused around students attending a campus whereas the Tasmanian Skills Institute will be the training facility for business.
Reeves to contest Rally Tasmania
RallySport Magazine Australia
The 2006 model Impreza is a similar car to that in which Reeves contested the 2007 ARC. Tasmania has been a happy hunting ground for Reeves in the past. He finished second outright to tarmac ace Jim Richards in the 2007 Rally Burnie and then won his Showroom Class in the all-tarmac Rally Tasmania in 2008 in which he drove a factory-supported Mazda 3. "I really love the roads in Tassie and it will be great to get back behind the wheel again" Reeves said.
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Hatfield stuck in Tasmania
TheChronicleHerald.ca Canada
The sailor forced to abandon the extreme around-the-world solo race now sits in Tasmania his yacht damaged his dream in tatters and his budget non-existent. But if giving up was an option this ex-RCMP officer would have walked away years ago. “I’ve always been able to finish everything that I’ve started” said Hatfield in a telephone interview Friday from Hobart. “But I’ve had all kinds of support and people seem to be satisfied with (my performance). They seem satisfied with the result that we got.
Spray paint ban in graffiti clamp down
ABC nline Australia
It says research shows the majority of offenders are under the age of 18. The legislation will enforce age restrictions across all retailers who sell aerosol paint. Police Minister Jim Cox says the move will bring Tasmania into line with New South Wales Victoria and South Australia which have all reported a reduction in graffiti. Tasmanian Police have welcomed the move. Inspector Scott Flude of the graffiti task force says the legislation will make graffiti a specific offence under Tasmanian law. “I think it’s just another string to our bow in stopping this sort of vandalism around the streets” he said. “I think it will be helpful legislation in the long run and again just give us that added teeth to be able to combat this problem.
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