The News Review:
- Tasmania records first swine flu case
- Work to begin on damaged Tasmanian rail link
- Books of The Times In the Wilds of Tasmania the Impacts of Empire
- Tas timbers strike a chord
- Paul osting Seeing the wood for the trees
- Keiko Bridwell in Semifinals f National Spelling Bee
Tasmania records first swine flu case
Melbourne Herald Sun
article-tools –> May 29 2009 09:17pm TASMANIA has recorded its first case of human swine flu. A 62-year-old woman from the northwest who disembarked from the Pacific Dawn cruise ship earlier this week has become the state’s first confirmed case acting director of public health Dr Chrissie Pickin said. The woman who lives alone has remained in home quarantine and is recovering well Dr Pickin said. Public health officers have been identifying people who may have come into contact with the woman and requesting they remain at home for seven days Dr Pickin said. Share this article.
Work to begin on damaged Tasmanian rail link
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“The magnitude of this task should not be underestimated” Sturges says. “Additional crews materials and equipment have been brought to Tasmania to undertake the task to ensure the track is open as a matter of urgency. The repair work will also see the $21 million Queensland Rail works program bought forward to replace 20 kilometres of rail and 160 000 sleepers on the line which carries vast amount of the states exports to its northern harbours. Asciano Pacific National’s parent company declined to comment.
Books of The Times In the Wilds of Tasmania the Impacts of Empire
New York Times
” nce again he has taken a real-life figure from Tasmanian history as a starting point and worked an elaborate improvisation on that individual’s experiences. In “Fish” that person was a 19th-century convict and forger named William Buelow Gould who made a series of remarkable fish and bird paintings; in “Wanting” it is a young aborigine girl known as Mathinna who was adopted and later abandoned by the governor of Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) the famed polar explorer Sir John Franklin and his wife Lady Franklin. Skip to next paragraph.
Tas timbers strike a chord
ABC nline
Victorian luthier Chris Wynne is in north-west Tasmania for a two-week course using local timbers. He has been using timbers like black heart sassafras and king billy pine for nearly 20 years. “I’ve always known how good they are and the beauty they show and acoustically how good they are” he said. Mr Wynne says there is a growing market for Tasmanian timbers among the world’s virtuoso musicians and some are already tapping into it. “I think you’ll find in the next five to 10 years on the international market there’ll be a lot of guitars made from Australian and particularly Tasmanian timbers” he said.
Paul osting Seeing the wood for the trees
Business Spectator
” Now of course they plan to use chlorine dioxide bleaching or elemental chlorine free (ECF) as it is called. Having pulled out of the formal assessment process special legislation to approve the pulp mill was passed through parliament. An outcome of Gunns’ abandonment of the independent assessment was that there was never any assessment of the pulp mills’ impact on Tasmania’s native forests or verification of the wood supply. Before Gunns pulled out of the formal assessment an.
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Keiko Bridwell in Semifinals f National Spelling Bee
News Channel 7
She spelled it thylocine. And in case you’re wondering it’s a rare dog-like animal from Tasmania with stripes on its back and is actually believed to be extinct. You can watch the spelling bee finals Thursday on.