The News Review:
- National drought council tours Tasmania
- DJ CRRECT: Terramin Angas Mine In South Australia Not Tasmania
- Move Canberra to Tasmania Turnbull jokes
- Fourth protester arrested in Tasmania
- Tasmania: winds of change
- Tasmania’s mislaid history
- Herridge starts 2009 season in Tasmania
National drought council tours Tasmania
ABC nline Australia
Last week members of the Federal Government’s National Rural Advisory Council toured Tasmania and meet farmers from Flinders Island and Waterhouse in the north east the Fingal Valley and the Midlands and Central Highlands. Recommendations from the council will be sent to the Federal Agriculture Minister and his decision on exceptional circumstances funding is expected before April. Head of the Tasmanian Government extensive agriculture branch Robin Thompson says the advisory committee saw the worst of Tasmania’s drought. “Yeah I’d say Royal George and probably around Hamilton in the central highlands are probably the really bad areas of the state” he says.
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DJ CRRECT: Terramin Angas Mine In South Australia Not Tasmania
MarketWatch (press release)
14 2009 Jan 14 2009 (Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex) –Zinc and lead producer Terramin Australia Ltd. AU) Thursday said it advanced the production schedule at its recently commissioned Angas zinc mine in South Australia by six months and expects to produce 45700 metric tons of zinc concentrate during the calendar year. (In “Terramin’s Angas Zinc Mine To Reach Capacity Early” published around 0255 GMT the location of the mine was incorrectly stated. ) (END) Dow Jones Newswires 01-14-09 2234ET Copyright (c) 2009 Dow Jones & Company Inc.
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: winds of change
NewDesignWorld (press release) UK
It will also provide a market incentive to accelerate uptake of renewable energy sources powering Australian properties which include solar wind and geothermal energy. The scheme is expected to be introduced in mid-2009. Tasmania ? world class resourcesTasmania is unique within Australia as the only state that already generates a large proportion of its electricity from hydro-electric power schemes. Hydro has been the predominant source of electricity in Tasmania since the first power stations were built in the early 1900?s and currently there are 29 hydro-electricity power plants throughout Tasmania. Lying in the path of the Roaring Forties – the prevailing westerly winds that circle the earth’s high southern latitudes – Tasmania has world class resources for the generation of wind power. Currently there are two operating wind farms in the State – Woolnorth Wind Farm in the State’s North-West and the Huxley Hill Wind Farm on King Island. There are a number of privately owned wind turbines in the State including a 225 kilowatt wind turbine on the Nicholas Poultry Farm and two wind turbines on Flinders Island with a combined generation capacity of 80 kW.
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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.