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- Tasmania’s Australian of the Year award recipients announced
- Fencing may save wild Tasmanian devils
- Cods to Darwin: we convicts thrived
- Greens weigh into Tas forestry debate
- Champions of law and order honoured
Tasmania’s Australian of the Year award recipients announced
Australia.T Australia
1) ends here –> Tasmania’s Australian of the Year award recipients announcedHBART: A gardening icon a King of pop a street kid survivor and exceptional band leader have tonight been named as the Tasmanian recipients in the Australian of the Year Awards 2009. The Premier of Tasmania David Bartlett MP presented the recipients with their awards in a ceremony this evening and congratulated all finalists on having earned such a prestigious honour from their fellow Tasmanians. Peter Cundall AM Ronnie Burns Sam Cawthorn John Layton Hodgetts AM The Tasmanian award recipients are:The Tasmanian Australian of the Year 2009 is gardening expert Peter Cundall AM. Peter Cundall has been gardening since he was a small child and has a love of the environment. Born in Manchester he taught himself paving techniques mainly using second-hand materials wheeled from derelict buildings in an old pram. He also learned pruning techniques propagation and heated greenhouse management and helped feed his family with the development of a highly productive vegetable garden.
Fencing may save wild Tasmanian devils
Hindu India
But for any chance of success the fences would have to be completed within two years said Hamish McCallum the senior scientist in the devil rescue program. He predicts the devil will go extinct in the wild within 20 years. The Australian island state of Tasmania is the only natural home for the world’s largest marsupial carnivore made notorious by its Looney Tunes cartoon namesake Taz. Its Latin name is Sarcophilus harrisii or “Harris’ meat lover” after the scientist who first studied devils. Scientists had hoped to find a genetic solution to the disease through Cedric a young devil who showed signs of natural immunity in laboratory tests. But last month Cedric contracted a second mutated strain of the cancer.
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Cods to Darwin: we convicts thrived
Sydney Morning Herald Australia
Academic researchers plan to use one of the nation’s favouriteindoor pastimes – checking out family skeletons – to reconstruct acollective family tree of convict ancestry. nce authenticated an”honour roll” of convict settlers will be assembled online. First off the blocks are the 73000 convicts who landed inTasmania. The original records describing these nation builders arenot only intact but they are among the most detailed inventoriescreated “of any human beings in the 19th century” right down tothe hue of their eyes historian Janet McCalman said. A great missing link in Australian history however is whatcame after many convicts received their “tickets of leave” frompenal servitude. That is where the hobbyist historian will be ofimmense use. In the days when a convict connection was a source ofembarrassment many freed convicts changed their names in a questfor respectability.
Greens weigh into Tas forestry debate
ABC nline Australia
The society is hoping a series of “community conversations” will lead to more constructive dialogue between conservationists industry stakeholders and government. Forestry Tasmania has agreed to attend the forums which will be chaired by what the Wilderness Society says will be an independent mediator. But Greens Senator Christine Milne says Forestry Tasmania should not bother with the forums unless it is prepared to listen to what the community wants and stop logging. “I welcome that kind of negotiation but this is not a strategy about saying ‘we will have so many more years of logging native forests’” she said. “That is well past it’s use-by date. Continuing protestsThe Greens have backed the ongoing action of protesters in Tasmania’s Upper Florentine Valley which is about to enter its second week.
Champions of law and order honoured
Tasmania Examiner Australia
And while I get the award it's a reflection of everyone who works in the district. ' – Cdr Glenn Frame THE STATE'S first ever female police commander and the North's top cop have both been honoured this Australia Day. Commanders Glenn Frame and Donna Adams have both received Australian Police Medals in recognition of their outstanding contributions to Tasmania Police. Cdr Frame who heads the Northern District said while the award was in his name it was reflective of the past and present officers he had worked with and the overall strength of the Tasmania Police force. However Cdr Frame said he was still proud to receive the award. “Northern District (officers) have performed to a high level and while not every member of the community appreciates every bit of policing activity generally I think the people of Northern Tasmania should be very proud of the police officers who serve them. “And while I get the award it's a reflection of everyone who works in the district” Cdr Frame said.