Donors pay Brown’s $240000 bill
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- Donors pay Brown’s $240000 bill
- Rail service axing hits Tasmania’s mining
- New Advertising Agency for Tourism Tasmania
- Two states of firefighter power
- CNCERNS VER FATE F TASMANIAN INDUSTRIAL CMMISSIN
Donors pay Brown’s $240000 bill
The Age
20 to $20000" Senator Brown said. "I am extremely grateful and send my heartfelt thanks to everyone who offered support. "The costs order finalises a long-running Federal Court case that Senator Brown began against logging of Tasmania’s Wielangta Forest in a test of endangered species legislation. He lost the case on appeal in the High Court and has already paid about $600000 in costs. Forestry Tasmania said it was out of pocket by $800000 in costs and Senator Brown’s rights and responsibilities were no different to any citizen’s. "As such he should have been prepared to settle any court-awarded costs" said Forestry Tasmania executive general manager Hans Drielsma. "We welcome his commitment to settle this matter.
Rail service axing hits Tasmania’s mining
The Australian
Pacific National owned by Asciano Group yesterday announced it would cease operation of the Melba line in Tasmania’s northwest. It is understood contracts will end on June 30. Asciano is trying to sell its entire Tasmanian rail freight operation and has been planning to quit the state by June 2010. Last night the Tasmanian government demanded clarification on whether the company planned to pull out before then potentially exposing taxpayers to a $30million-plus bailout.
New Advertising Agency for Tourism Tasmania
Australia.T
T International Edition – Local and World NewsNew Advertising Agency for Tourism Tasmania. 4 million three year advertising contract which commences on 1 July 2009. ?The current advertising contract will expire on 30 June 2009 and the appointment of WhybinTBWA concludes a highly-competitive and exhaustive three-stage tender process that began late last year? Ms ?Byrne said. ?Their appointment introduces a new advertising partnership to keep Tasmania high on the shopping list of potential visitors. ? WhybinTBWA were selected from an impressive field of 35 agencies that submitted formal expressions of interest including two local firms and two interstate agencies with Tasmanian connections.
Two states of firefighter power
The Age
We use an id here to be able to jump to this section. –> Two states of firefighter power. –> Dewi Cooke June 12 2009 TASMANIA’S firefighters can advise residents whether their homes would be defendable in a bushfire and police have the power to evacuate communities forcibly if required the Bushfires Royal Commission into the Black Saturday fires has learned. In contrast to CFA policy that prevents firefighters giving advice about the safety of a home or whether to stay and defend it Tasmanian firefighters had been able to assess whether a home was defendable since 1998 Tasmania Fire Services chief officer John Gledhill told the commission yesterday. Although the able-bodied were encouraged to stay and defend their homes firefighters would also suggest to those whose homes were not considered defendable to leave early. Mr Gledhill said the policy worked on a "triage" basis which meant the assessment was only made before fire arrived and would not apply to "sudden impact" fire such as those of February 7. "They would be advised to leave that their property was undefendable but it’s up to them" he said.
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CNCERNS VER FATE F TASMANIAN INDUSTRIAL CMMISSIN
Tasmanian Greens
Greens Leader Nick McKim MP said that given Mr Bartlett’s history of secrecy his failure to rule out any such transfer calls into question the future of the Tasmanian Industrial Commission. “It would have been very easy for the Premier to have simply ruled this out but it seems as if the same Premier who abolished an entire Department without consulting a single worker may now be secretly planning a transfer of industrial powers to the Commonwealth” Mr McKim said. “Mr Bartlett has already abolished an entire Department without consulting a single worker and it would not surprise to see him do the same to the TIC especially given his refusal to rule it out in Parliament this morning. “For a State Labor Premier to not leap at the opportunity to guarantee that the state’s industrial relations powers will be retained in full is very telling and it wouldn’t surprise me if Mr Bartlett is once again secretly progressing plans which will have significant ramifications for Tasmania’s workforce.
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