The News Review:
- Tasmanian bee talks fail
- V8 Utes Miedecke to drive his Heart out at Symmons Plains Tasmania
- Race Program Changes – Tasmania – June 2009
- Tasmania considers voluntary euthanasia
- Tasmanian devil now endangered species
- The Tasmanian Sustainable Water Yields Project
Tasmanian bee talks fail
ABC nline
President of the Tasmanian Beekeepers Association Julian Woolfhagen says the industry has wasted five years trying to get an agreement with Forestry Tasmania on long-term leases protection of leatherwood forests and an industry management plan. He says the association acceded to Forestry Tasmania’s request to negotiate and not air its disagreements in the media but that hasn’t been reciprocated. “It’s just a constant merry-go-round” he says. “They asked us to get off the front pages five years ago so we could come in and have meaningful dialogue.
V8 Utes Miedecke to drive his Heart out at Symmons Plains Tasmania
Motorsport.com
The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (VCCRI) addresses all formsof heart disease and has as its major focus the prevention diagnosisand treatment of heart muscle diseases. The VCCRI strives to conduct the highest quality fundamental researchinto cardiovascular disease plays a major role in disease preventiontrains cardiovascular researchers and doctors and ensures the rapidtransfer of new knowledge treatments and diagnostics to the patient. Miedecke became associated with the Institute last year through hisracing at Targa Tasmania. “I was really proud to be helping out. At the end of last year I waslucky enough to attend the annual Cocktail party where the Instituterecognises the achievements of its research scientists and ambassadors. Talking to the scientists the people doing the work was amazing. Theyreally are the best and brightest and I decided at that moment to doeverything I could to help them with their work – for me that happens tobe promoting the Institute through my racing.
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Race Program Changes – Tasmania – June 2009
Harness Racing in Australia
All relate to $2500 races where acceptors are required to have a minimum of three race starts. Another condition has been added. Horses are ineligible if they have won in their last three starts. The changes (in bold print) to June and July race programs are: Launceston – Sunday 7 June 2009LNC07060910 – (MS) of $2500.
Tasmania considers voluntary euthanasia
The Australian
It’s the second attempt since 1998 to decriminalise and regulate voluntary euthanasia for terminally ill people in Tasmania. Tasmanian Greens leader Nick McKim tabled the private members Bill today positioning it as a March state election issue. Labor and Liberal MPs have been allowed a conscience vote on the Bill which could start being debated as early as August. However the Dying with Dignity Bill 2009 is destined to be referred to a parliamentary committee of inquiry before a show of hands is required.
Tasmanian devil now endangered species
United Press International
The Tasmanian devil the largest surviving marsupial carnivore became extinct in mainland Australia several hundred years before European settlement. In Tasmania farmers considered them a threat to livestock and they were hunted until 1941. Tasmania upgraded the devil from threatened to endangered last year. © 2009 United Press International Inc. All Rights Reserved.
The Tasmanian Sustainable Water Yields Project
Tasmanian Government Media Releases (press release)
n 26 March 2008 the Council of Australian Governments agreed to expand the CSIR assessments of sustainable water yields so that for the first time Australia would have a comprehensive scientific assessment of water yield in all major water systems across the country. “The Tasmanian Sustainable Yields project will provide an assessment of the current and future sustainable water yields for each of the developed catchments in the State” Mr Llewellyn said. “The Project will provide the imprimatur for ensuring that the major irrigation infrastructure projects are long-term sustainable in terms of water supply. “This in turn provides the security needed to underpin ongoing investment in agricultural development in a future of changing climate and water demand.