The News Review:
- Kennett brands AFL comments on Tasmania match an insult
- Kiwis take on wage gap to avoid being poor man’s Tasmania
- Tasmania July 21 2009. Shippies Comes Alive
- National broadband network begins in Tasmania
- Baby rates high growth slow
- Tasmanian performer Audrey Auld plays HillyBean’s
Kennett brands AFL comments on Tasmania match an insult
The Age
Kennett said AFL bosses Andrew Demetriou and Gillon McLachlanhad insulted the Hawks and Tasmania in pointing to the highlyanticipated clash as a prime example of lost attendances and saidthe league should look closer to home for the drop in crowdnumbers. “I think that is an insult to the people of Tasmania” saidKennett “and the government of Tasmania and it insults us as afootball club as we are proudly in Tasmania for the long term. Kennett said the comments by the AFL in The Age yesterdayhad created the impression Tasmania was to blame for the fall inattendances this season. McLachlan told The Age: “In trying to find the rightbalance we might have lost sight of the bigger picture and thebroader ideal of maximising attendances and to a lesser extentratings … We obviously support what Hawthorn are doing inTasmania but it (the St Kilda clash) is one example of where wemight not have seen the wood for the trees. Kennett said: “If crowds are down then the AFL should look atgames on the mainland that are not attracting the numbers you wouldexpect even games between two Victorian teams as we saw lastweekend where one game only managed about 30000 which wasdisappointing.
Kiwis take on wage gap to avoid being poor man’s Tasmania
The Australian
The man given the big job former New Zealand Reserve Bank governor Don Brash says Australia’s little Tasman neighbour has a lot of catching up to do. "We’re talking about a very big gap and one that has been in place 40 years" Dr Brash said. "But we have to take it on otherwise we’re just going to become a very distant Tasmania to the Australian mainland. "Australians earn about a third more a year than New Zealanders and Gross Domestic Product is about a third larger per capita – figures that have been blamed for high net migration across the Tasman. Analysts say the two countries were competitive through the 1960s but New Zealand slipped dramatically through the 1970s and 1980s and has never recovered. It now struggles with relatively lower productivity not because there are not enough hands to the pump but because there has been a lack of capital investment or money spent on a better pump. Dr Brash has acknowledged the importance of so-called capital deepening but is keeping mum on exactly how he plans to improve the situation.
Tasmania July 21 2009. Shippies Comes Alive
Australia's Surfing Life
In what started off as a really cruisy day much panic spread amongst our crew when we realised what was happening right before our eyes at Cremorne Beach. As each set rolled into the protected bay they continued to get bigger and bigger. Knowing that we were staring at an incredibly high tide and a rapidly building swell a small but frothing crew made the quick bolt down to Shippies in Polly’s runabout. The swell was forecast to peak around 23 feet at 14-15 Second intervals from the south west. At around 3 PM the first of the real sets started to show however the swell was more south than predicted.
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National broadband network begins in Tasmania
NEWS.com.au
Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett made the announcement yesterday. Senator Conroy said Tasmania was the logical "test bed" for the fibre-optic cable network as the state has traditionally had poor access to broadband services. That means Tasmanians will be first to try out the 100 megabit-per-second network while the construction will also serve as a learning process for the wider roll-out in mainland Australia. The project will be run by a company called TNBN formed as a joint venture between the Federal Government’s NBN company and Aurora Energy.
Baby rates high growth slow
ABC nline
But social demographer Mark McCrindle says it is not leading to a population boom. “No-one is moving to tasmania from other states that’s the bottom line of it” he said. He says all the growth is happening in the northern states partly because of the resources boom but also because of climate and lifestyle factors. Tasmania’s growth rate is only one per cent a year a third of Western Australia’s. South Australia is the second slowest-growing at 1. 1 per cent growth rate.
Tasmanian performer Audrey Auld plays HillyBean’s
Tehachapi News
Singer-songwriter Audrey Auld’s heart is in country folk and Americana music with a presence as big as The utback. Her songs are the wry and poignant observations of a Tassie girl living in California and Nashville for the past five years. Audrey calls it "Music with the dirt left on. " Auld is a memorable and uplifting entertainer.