Whistleblower fronts Johnston hearing
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- Whistleblower fronts Johnston hearing
- Windsurfer Allison Shreeve fails in bid to cross Bass Strait
- Battle on for 21st Hydro Tasmania Three Peaks Race
- ‘NEILL CLDWATER CLASSIC TASMANIA: DAY 2
- Beached whales theories are hard to fathom
- Swift sacking stuns Premier
- Baby whale dies after beaching
Whistleblower fronts Johnston hearing
ABC nline
The testimony came on the fourth day of a preliminary hearing in the case against suspended Tasmania Police Commissioner Jack Johnston. Johnston 59 has pleaded not guilty to two charges of disclosing official secrets. Mr Burch told the Magistrates Court that in late 2007 then deputy Premier Steve Kons asked him if he had made a confidential police statement. Earlier Mr Kons gave evidence to the hearing and denied that he had the conversation with Mr Burch. The court also heard Mr Burch had told a number of people about the police statement including a newspaper journalist and a Tasmanian Greens MP before it became public knowledge.
Windsurfer Allison Shreeve fails in bid to cross Bass Strait
Melbourne Herald Sun
article-tools –> Staff writer and AAP March 26 2009 01:38pm UPDATE 6:51pm SYDNEY woman Allison Shreeve has failed in her record bid to cross the Bass Strait on a windsurfer. Shreeve pulled out due to mild hypothermia and cramps about 80km off the Victorian coast late today after leaving Tasmania just after 7. She had to contend with strong winds soon after leaving Stanley on Tasmania’s north-west coast and suffered cramps early in the crossing. 1 female windsurfer was on course to shatter the record of 17 hours as she neared Inverloch on Victoria’s south-east coast but leg spasms made it impossible to carry on.
Battle on for 21st Hydro Tasmania Three Peaks Race
Sail World
But undoubtedly the most exciting aspect of the race will be the fierce rivalry between race record-holder Terry Travers and defending champion Phillip Marshall. Marshall from Shearwater in north-west Tasmania ended Travers? quest to win five consecutive races in 2005. Devonport?s Travers will attempt to do the same in this year?s race which starts on Good Friday April 10 at Beauty Point in Northern Tasmania. Travers is believed to have a few secret weapons on board his 11. 4m catamaran to get the edge on his smaller competitor including a change to his running team. Launceston runner Clarence Blake will pair up with Victorian Andrew Kromar who has held the record for the fastest overall running time since 1996.
‘NEILL CLDWATER CLASSIC TASMANIA: DAY 2
Surfline.com Surf News
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Beached whales theories are hard to fathom
WA today
Hundreds of disappointed volunteers failed in tireless efforts to assist the pod of long-finned pilot whales after they beached at picturesque Hamelin Bay 280km south of Perth before dawn on Monday. Just three of 87 beached whales are believed to have survived after 10 of them were herded back out to sea. In an occurrence mirrored in the stranding of about 200 pilot whales at Tasmania’s King Island just three weeks earlier a group of several dolphins beached themselves along with the whales. Chris Arthur from Tasmania’s Parks and Wildlife Service said at the time it was “not uncommon” for whales and dolphins to strand themselves simultaneously. “I know of a number of strandings like that but it is unusual” he said. Authorities estimate that about 80 per cent of mass whale beachings occur in Tasmania – and this summer has been a busy one. Last month 48 sperm whales died when they became caught on a sand bar off Perkins Island near Smithton on the Bass Strait coast.
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Swift sacking stuns Premier
Tasmania Mercury
Just three months ago the company was talking up the prospects of all three of its Tasmanian operations. In Parliament Mr Bartlett read from a letter from Swift to the Government in December outlining its expansion plans. The meat company said it planned to spend $60 million across its facilities in Tasmania Queensland and Victoria this year. Farmers and the King Island Council fear Swift plans to walk away from King Island completely taking away one third of the jobs on the island. Mayor Charles Arnold said the review of the meatworks was probably more about boosting its Victorian plants than assessing the viability of its Bass Strait operations. Swift operates the only slaughterhouse on the island. Its permanent closure would force the 140 local cattle producers to live export arrangements.
Baby whale dies after beaching
Straits Times
‘That one unfortunately didn’t make it’ he told AFP. Authorities would continue aerially monitoring beaches in the area to ensure the survivors who were believed to have made it to deeper water did not return to shore Mr Carter said. More than 400 whales have stranded around southern Australia and Tasmania in the past four months including a mass beaching of almost 200 on King Island. In November more than 150 pilot whales died after beaching themselves on Tasmania’s west coast and in January 48 sperm whales died on a sandbar at the north of the island. The phenomenon of whale strandings and the causes remain the subject of scientific debate.
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