The News Review:
- Australian rider killed in motorcycle race
- Hydro Tasmania’s $80m wind farm sale
- Tas gets first ‘byte’ at new broadband
- Inaugural review of Tasmania’s water and wastewater
- Wake up call for public sector: Bartlett
Australian rider killed in motorcycle race
USA Today
The accident occurred at Symmons Plains Raceway near Launceston on the island state of Tasmania during the second round of the domestic Superbikes championships Sunday. Racing was stopped for the day following the fatal crash which involved two motorcycles hitting a fallen rider on the third lap of the race. Tasmania Police confirmed a 29-year-old rider had died in the incident. His name was not immediately released. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.
Hydro Tasmania’s $80m wind farm sale
Tasmania Examiner
Hydro has today also announced that it expects to sell the rest of its Asian business including the Khandke project in India within weeks. The sale will allow Roaring 40s to proceed with renewable energy projects in Australia including the $150 million Musselroe Bay development and a South Australian project at Waterloo. Roaring 40s was established in 2005 as a 50-50 joint venture between Hydro Tasmania and the CLP Group. The sale to CLP of Roaring 40s’ Chinese business will generate $66 million while the Khandke Wind Farm in India is expected to fetch $15.
Tas gets first ‘byte’ at new broadband
ABC nline
Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy says the Tasmanian proposal is an exciting one. “We understand that they’ve been ready to go for a considerable period of time so we believe that the Tasmanian rollout of the National Broadband Network can actually be commenced by the middle of the year June or July” he said. “In Tasmania we’re able to start what we call the black spots backhaul we’re able to start all of those this year. “Tasmania we believe can be up and running. It’s ready to go with it’s proposal. It’ll be an augmented proposal. “That’s what those discussions will be about in the next 24 hours and we believe we’ll be able to see something very positive about that very shortly” he said.
Inaugural review of Tasmania’s water and wastewater
Environmental Management News (subscription)
The state’s regulatory framework for the sector is only due to come into force in July – another barrier to immediate meaningful assessment said the 2007-08 state of the industry report. You are not logged in or not authorised to view this page.
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Wake up call for public sector: Bartlett
ABC nline
Unions will not support the move a position the government says could jeopardise 1500 jobs. Mr Bartlett has told ABC Local Radio the 280 job cuts in Burnie should send a message to the unions. “If the public sector unions in Tasmania believe that the public sector can be completely immune from these changes while Tasmanians in the private sector are losing their jobs well that is a very very difficult position to defend I think. Tags: unemployment states-and-territories unions hobart-7000Search for news.