Tasmania confirms second swine flu case
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- Tasmania confirms second swine flu case
- Australia’s swine flu cases hit 502
- Australia brewer launches $1-a-sip boutique beer
- Veteran spruiks benefits of broadband network
- The ‘cruellest cut’ may also be illegal
- Beaconsfield seeks $5m for expansion
Tasmania confirms second swine flu case
ABC nline
The Acting Director of Public Health Chrissie Pickin says it is likely the person from the state’s north-west became infected on a recent trip to Melbourne. Dr Pickin says health officials are now following up on those people who have had close contact with the person over the past seven days. Health authorities have established flu clinics around Tasmania but say they will not be activated until the threat of swine flu in the state becomes more serious. At this stage mobile teams of nurses are visiting those people who call the flu hotline. The state’s first case of the H1N1 virus was confirmed on Friday. The Acting Director of Public Health Dr Chrissie Pickin says the number of people in home isolation continues to fluctuate. Forty Tasmanians have been cleared of having the virus.
Australia’s swine flu cases hit 502
Brisbane Times
We use an id here to be able to jump to this section. –> Australia’s swine flu cases hit 502. –> June 3 2009 – 12:24PM The number of confirmed cases of human swine flu in Australia has risen to 502 with Tasmania recording its second case overnight. Tasmanian health officials said the affected person from the state’s northwest was tested by a GP last Friday after returning from Melbourne. People who have had close contact with the person in the past week will be contacted by health authorities and instructed to stay in home isolation for up to seven days and be given antivirals. All Australian states and territories now have at least one confirmed case with Victoria by far the worst affected. As of Tuesday night 395 people in Victoria had tested positive.
Australia brewer launches $1-a-sip boutique beer
Reuters India
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Veteran spruiks benefits of broadband network
The Age
Jonathan Spring has lived and breathed fibre-to-the-home broadband for more than a decade and as the architect of the only FTTH network of its kind in Australia is in a unique position to spruik its benefits. Ask around the broadband industry and surprisingly few people know much about the Tasmanian Collaborative ptical Leading Testbed (TasCLT) project. This is despite the fact that construction of the NBN is expected to begin in Tasmania within weeks. As the name suggests the network is a collaboration between Dr Spring’s company CES the Tasmanian Government and various equipment suppliers including Hitachi Intel and Cisco. It supplies FTTH broadband to 1500 premises in New Town Devonport and South Hobart and was championed from its inception in 2001 by David Bartlett then an adviser to Tasmanian treasurer David Crean but now Premier of the state. While there are other FTTH networks around the nation they are all "greenfields" networks put in as housing estates are built and thus are easier to install because there is no existing infrastructure to negotiate. TasCLT is a "brownfields" network built around existing suburbs.
The ‘cruellest cut’ may also be illegal
The Age
–> Andrew Darby June 3 2009 NCE routine now often thought unkind the cut may also be illegal. Parental consent might not be enough to protect the circumcisers of baby boys from later legal action. In a rare legal analysis of the medical procedure the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute found that criminal and civil law lacked certainty and that circumcision might abuse the rights of a child. No specific laws currently regulate the removal of the penile foreskin in Australia and there are few clear answers in general law according to an institute researcher Warwick Marshall. “What is clear is that the current laws were not framed with male circumcision in mind” he said in an issues paper released yesterday. About 12 per cent of newborn boys are believed to be circumcised in Australia down from 90 per cent in the 1950s. Routine circumcision is no longer performed in most Australian public hospitals.
Beaconsfield seeks $5m for expansion
The Age
–> June 3 2009 – 11:19AM Miner Beaconsfield Gold Ltd is seeking to raise $5 million partly to expand outside Tasmania. The push to develop its interest in the Ararat copper and gold mine in Victoria and the nearby Stavely mine would be the first time the company has expanded outside Tasmania. Part of the money raised from the share purchase plan will also be used to develop and explore the Beaconsfield Mine. Under the purchase plan eligible shareholders will be able to purchase $1000 to $15000 worth of shares at 15 cents per share a slight discount to Tuesday’s opening price of 16 cents per share. “This represents a 10.
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