The News Review:
- Bass Metals swings to profit on sales from Tasmanian project
- Jetstar to close Hobart crew base
- Roadkill GPS Navigation System to Protect Animals
- Mark Webber Challenge to take a breather in 2009
- Workplace gene testing fears
- New Tasmanian irrigation pipe to start flowing this month
Bass Metals swings to profit on sales from Tasmanian project
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
The profit for the half year was based on ore sales from the Que River operation in Tasmania which amounted to $117-million. re from the project is sold to Australian diversified-miner z Minerals’ nearby Rosebery processing facility under an ore-sales agreement.
Jetstar to close Hobart crew base
NEWS.com.au
story-share –> JESTAR is closing its Hobart crew base forcing 41 local staff to take redundancies or relocate to one of the airline’s mainland facilities. Jetstar spokesman Simon Westaway on Wednesday said the decision would not affect the airline’s services to Tasmania. However Jetstar would from May 1 no longer permanently base an aircraft and its staff overnight in Hobart as it has done since 2004 he said. Mr Westaway said the “regretful” restructure was forced by the troubled economic times and a strategic need to reorganise bases to expand services to Asia. There would still be enough work in Hobart for Jetstar’s eight aircraft engineers to stay he said. But six pilots and 35 cabin crew would be supported by the airline to move within those jobs to other bases or take redundancies he said.
Roadkill GPS Navigation System to Protect Animals
National Geographic
com for hot spot maps. )”We’re negotiating with car [rental] companies in Tasmania to have this technology installed in every rental car” Hobday said. “Tourists in particular are often horrified by the amount of roadkill here. ther deterrents such as reflectors and whistles on cars have not worked. Ninety percent of dead animals found in the study were relatively common creatures like brushtail possums Hobday said. But threatened species like.
Mark Webber Challenge to take a breather in 2009
Formula 1
However Webber did not rule out it returning in the future. The Challenge which has been staged four times since 2003 features renowned sportsmen and women racing across the Australian island state by bicycle kayak and on foot to raise money for charity. “The Challenge team remains open to considering events beyond 2009 given the established model that has been created by the Mark Webber Challenge in Tasmania” said Webber on his official website. “We would certainly look to Tasmania again in this consideration given the long and mutually beneficial relationship we have built up over the last four events.
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Workplace gene testing fears
Sydney Morning Herald
The director of the Centre for Law and Genetics at theUniversity of Tasmania Margaret tlowski said most Australianemployers were not using genetic testing or other geneticinformation to monitor present or future employees. But her research showed it was likely to become more of aconcern. “At least some employers would be interested in usinggenetic testing in future if it were inexpensive and accessible”Professor tlowski said. Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner Graeme Innes said thepractice was occurring on a small scale and people should be awareit was unlawful for employers to discriminate on the basis of aworker’s genetic make-up except in rare circumstances. Any complaints could be brought to the commission forinvestigation.
New Tasmanian irrigation pipe to start flowing this month
ABC nline
The $6 million pipeline has been funded by farmers to take water to the Macquarie Settlement area south of Cressy. The water will be used to irrigate about 7000 hectares. Chairman of the the Macquarie Settlement Pipeline group Rob Bayles says it will secure the future of the area. “Probably what drove the community to build it was the potential we had to get ourselves cheap water against everything else that was being made available” he says.