The News Review:
- Fears on Tourism Tasmania budget
- Alaska – a peony paradise?
- Surfing the wild slab
- More Tas firies join Vic fight
- `Disaster’ for breeding industry
Fears on Tourism Tasmania budget
Tasmania Examiner Australia -
n Thursday Tourism Minister Michelle 'Byrne will unveil the State's autumn marketing campaign which is said to be one of the biggest in recent years. But the department could not say whether Tourism Tasmania would be negatively impacted by the Government's efforts to plug holes in its Budget deficit this year. Tasmanian Tourism Industry Council chief executive Daniel Hanna said the industry feared being the subject of reduced State Government spending this year. “Naturally as an industry we already fear these things but I haven't seen anything to suggest it yet” Mr Hanna said.
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Alaska – a peony paradise?
Christian Science Monitor MA -
Peony growers from around the world started offering advice. Two of them even showed up in Fairbanks and visited Holloway’s peony test plot after their Alaska cruise tours. ne of them from Tasmania gave an impromptu lecture to local growers. Why so kind? These farmers sell their peonies at a different time of year. They aren’t threatened if Alaskans join the trade Holloway says. Even Red Kennicott the great-great grand-nephew of Alaska explorer and naturalist Robert Kennicott — the namesake of the historic Alaska mega-copper mine near McCarthy — called her to find out about the peonies. Although the Kennicott name is now synonymous with copper mining the family has been cultivating flowers since the 1800s.
Surfing the wild slab
Honolulu Advertiser HI -
The doctor had pulled a sea urchin spine from the wound. Such ogreish waves have opened a new frontier in a sport instilled like few others with the mystique of exploration and increasingly battle. Searching the worldThe great hunt for the unknown beast is taking elite surfers to remote coasts around the world Chile Iceland Tasmania Scotland Canada Ireland Alaska even Antarctica and closer to California rock islands off Baja California isolated reefs from Point Conception to Eureka and the Channel Islands. The quarry is hard to catch a combination of wind and swell interacting with the complex bathymetry of the sea floor. Modern forecasting helps the surfers pinpoint the target. Corporate sponsorship delivers them fully equipped to the destinations. Skis tow them onto giant waves moving too fast to catch by paddling.
More Tas firies join Vic fight
ABC nline Australia -
Southern Fire Chief Tony Davidson says the state’s total contribution has been about 90 firefighters and that commitment will stay in place as long as the resources aren’t needed at home. “The Victorians have asked us to keep the fire rotations coming until they tell us not to” he explained. “They’ve got some fire weather coming up and we’re maintaining our presence there given the conditions we’re having here in Tasmania. Mr Davidson says they’re keeping a close eye on Tasmania’s weather. “We have in the order of 4500 volunteers we haven’t depleted our career ranks at all and we haven’t got any business to speak of in terms of fires so we believe we’re in a very good position at this stage. Tags: bushfire work tas vicSearch for news.
`Disaster’ for breeding industry
Tasmania Examiner Australia -
” McCulloch said there was a lack of interest from both interstate and local buyers. “I probably sold just over half the yearlings I offered and my overall return would be down about 50 per cent on last year” he said. Melbourne syndicator Joe 'Neill a regular buyer in Tasmania said that the sale was “a disaster for the local breeding industry”. “The economy obviously had a lot to do with it but I think there might also have been a backlash from the lack of success of local horses over the carnival” 'Neill said. “Most of the feature-race winners have been by interstate sires and even though Conquering was bred in Tasmania he is by an interstate stallion. “Tasmania is not alone in that regard. In Victoria no one wants to buy the progeny of Victorian- based sires either.