The News Review:
- Tasmania tries to attract more fishermen
- Leading Bushrangers look to old and new
- Big apple crop expected in Tassie
- Senator targets forest protester
- Fears on Tourism Tasmania budget
- 60 year Housing Tasmania Milestone Marked In Launceston
Tasmania tries to attract more fishermen
ABC nline Australia -
The Tasmanian Government wants to lift angler numbers by 15 per cent increase the value of the fishery by more than $30 million a year and create 100 new jobs around the state. Inland Fisheries Service project manager Neil Morrow says trout tourism had stalled in Tasmania before the project started providing more facilities and signs. “Certainly some off the concerns that people have with access is that it’s going to generate a lot more pressure in specific areas but that’s what we’re trying not to do” he says. “We’re actually trying to open up more areas and so create further dispersal.
Leading Bushrangers look to old and new
CricInfo.com UK -
ur focus has to be to moving forward and making the most of our upcoming opportunities. We’re very determined to do that. Tasmania have made one change to their squad with the batsman David Dawson coming in for Rhett Lockyear who scored 12 and 18 in the. The Tigers sit in second. South Australia will attempt to keep their slim finals hopes alive with a victory over Western Australia in Perth.
Big apple crop expected in Tassie
ABC nline Australia -
rchardists in the Huon Valley have reported falls of up to 60 millimetres just two weeks before the start of harvest. Thomas Frankcomb from Fruit Growers Tasmania says the rain is a relief for growers who were worried about fruit size and quality after a dry summer. “The fruit was really suffering from the dry and there could have been a fair bit of small fruit around so this will hopefully reduce the amount of small fruit” he says. “There looks to be a reasonable crop of fruit around in Tasmania and with this rain now it should finish it off nicely. National Rural News.
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Senator targets forest protester
ABC nline Australia -
Nishant Datt 22 appeared on ABC Tasmania’s Stateline program late last year. Mr Datt gave up studying in Sydney to spend two years living in a protest camp trying to stop forestry operations in the Upper Florentine Valley. He told Stateline he couldn’t tear himself away from the forest. “It’s one of the most beautiful places I’ve seen in my life” Mr Datt said. “Valleys like the upper Florentine and the Weld and the Styx.
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.
60 year Housing Tasmania Milestone Marked In Launceston
Tasmanian Government Media Releases (press release) Australia -
Ms Thorp said next month will mark Douglas Bessell’s 60th year of continuous residence in the Housing Tasmania property he calls home in the Launceston suburb of Elphin. “Mr Bessell has many happy memories of his time spent in his Elphin residence not the least of which has been raising six children with his late wife. “He has also been an active member of the Launceston community having worked at the Inveresk Rail Yards and the Paton and Baldwins Mill for many years. ” Ms Thorp said Mr Bessell’s case was a good example of what a positive difference secure and safe accommodation can make to a person’s life.