The News Review:
- Move Canberra to Tasmania Turnbull jokes
- Fourth protester arrested in Tasmania
- Tasmania’s mislaid history
- Herridge starts 2009 season in Tasmania
- Motor racing-Webber ready to throw away the crutches
- Australia Facing Shark ‘Plague’ After Three Attacks in Two Days
- Hatfield stuck in Tasmania
Move Canberra to Tasmania Turnbull jokes
The Australian Australia
And he hinted that the original notion of plonking the nation’s capital between Sydney and Melbourne was a bad idea noting that "a lot of people" were critics. Declaring his love affair with Tasmania after a brief visit with wife Lucy this month Mr Turnbull joked that Launceston might make a perfectly sensible capital when prodded on radio. "Well I think a lot of people are very critical of Canberra and whether the decision was the right one or not it’s been made ” he said. "So I think we’re stuck with Canberra for at least the next few hundred years. “But maybe the founding fathers of the commonwealth should have thought of having the national capital in Tasmania instead. " Liberal frontbencher Tony Abbott told The Australian nline that while "the good people of Launceston might crave an influx of public servants I am afraid history precludes it".
Fourth protester arrested in Tasmania
The Canberra Times Australia
Four protesters remain camped out in the trees and in a tunnel at the entrance to the Florentine Valley 100km west of Hobart on Wednesday. The activists are protesting against a road being built by Forestry Tasmania into the valley and logging in the area. Three men were arrested on Tuesday and charged with offences relating to trespassing in a state forest. A fourth woman was arrested late on Tuesday night as she attempted to leave a tree sit location within the exclusion zone in the valley a police spokesman said. “The female had earlier in the day evaded arrest after she left a tree platform and climbed higher into the tree” the spokesman said. The woman a 22-year-old from Queensland was taken to Bridgewater police station and was bailed to appear in court at a later date.
Tasmania’s mislaid history
The Australian Australia
Taylor an Australian Research Council fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Australian Centre in the School of Historical Studies is in England to study Tasmanian Aboriginal collections in British museums. "When I tell people my area is Tasmanian Aboriginal history they often ask ‘Then why are you in England?"’ she tells the HES. "They somehow forget that the British colonised Tasmania and like with all their other colonies they collected things of interest and brought them home. The British Museum stands testimony to the power and size of the empire. " Britain and England in particular Taylor says was the centre of scholarship for the study of indigenous peoples in the empire. And the Tasmanians were a particular fascination to scientists. In part that fascination was born from a single stone tool.
Herridge starts 2009 season in Tasmania
RallySport Magazine Australia
The rally season has an early ‘kick-off’ this year for Dean Herridge with a trip to Tasmania for Targa Wrest Point. The rally which starts on January 31 takes in two days of tarmac roads in the south-east corner of Tasmania. The event is a perfect opportunity for Dean and the team to shakedown two brand-new 2008-spec Subaru WRX STIs prepared by Maximum Motorsport. Dean’s car which he’ll also use at Targa Tasmania in May was originally to be debuted at Targa West 2008. Scheduling conflicts with the Chinese Rally Championship forced him to miss his ‘local’ tarmac rally but with the finishing touches now being made to the new car Targa Wrest Point looks to be the perfect warm-up for Tasmania’s ‘other’ Targa.
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Motor racing-Webber ready to throw away the crutches
Reuters
The 32-year-old told Reuters on Tuesday that he drove his road car on Sunday for the first time since the bicycle accidentand was set to resume testing with Red Bull after the launch oftheir 2009 car at Spain’s Jerez circuit on Feb. 9 “I’ve told the team to prepare as normal” he said. Webber broke his lower right leg after a collision with afour-wheel drive vehicle while competing in his own multi-sportcharity event in Tasmania. The Formula ne season starts in Melbourne on March 29 withmajor rule changes including the use of slick tyres and revisedaerodynamics that drivers have already said will take somegetting used to. Red Bull who have race-winning German youngster SebastianVettel joining Webber this season have three tests scheduledafter the launch. Webber who returned to England before Christmas said hecould have got back behind the wheel of his road car some timeago but there was no point in taking any risks at this stage. “I’m doing a lot of work in the pool just getting themuscles firing again in that leg” he said.
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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.
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.