The News Review:
- New Fife distiller turns tradition upside down … by going to …
- Support for royalties in Tasmania
- Rudd Says No To Gay Marriage
New Fife distiller turns tradition upside down … by going to …
Sunday Herald
by going to Tasmania to recruit a whisky expertIt is the equivalent of selling sand to the Saudis or ice to theInuit: a proposed Scottish distilleryhas gone to the bottom ofthe world for advice in makingwhisky. BY BILL MACKINTSHIt is the equivalent of selling sand to the Saudis or ice to theInuit: a proposed Scottish distilleryhas gone to the bottom ofthe world for advice in makingwhisky. The Kingsbarns Company ofDistillers based just outside St AndrewsFife has enlisted Bill Lark founder andowner of the Lark Distillery in Tasmaniaand known as the “Godfather ofmodern Australian whisky-making” tohelp it cash in on the booming whiskytourism industry. The plan is to convert a semi-derelictfarmstead on the Cambo Estatebetween St Andrews and Crail and openit as a small-batch distillery visitorcentre and restaurant. The estate hasbeen home to the Erskine family since1688 and adjoins Kingsbarns Golf Links- where the dream of a new distillerywas forged. advertisementA second Australian golf course andwhisky entrepreneur Greg Ramsay 32is also involved along with AbertayUniversity graduate Doug Clement also32 who first met Ramsay while caddyingat the Kingsbarns course. The distillery project which will costbetween £1 million and £1.
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Support for royalties in Tasmania
Australian Mining
getElementById(“share”);object. attachButton(element); A proposal to funnel mining royalties back to local Tasmanian communities has been backed by Grange Resources owner of the Savage River iron ore mine on the State?s west coast. The royalties issue was raised at the State Labor Conference in Hobart over the weekend. The plan would see mining royalties go to remote west coast Tasmanian communities in order for them to develop their infrastructure and help make them more appealing to local mining workers. Grange Resources chief operating officer Wayne Bould told MINING DAILY that he is in favour of giving back to local communities. ?It is a commendable approach to put some money back into the communities and give the people some of the benefits of mining? he said.
Rudd Says No To Gay Marriage
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Tomorrow Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will take the floor at the ALP National Conference in Sydney and some groups have decided to confront the PM on what they consider to be an issue of national importance: gay marriage. At its own state conference Tasmania ALP voted to support gay marriage and an amendment to the Marriage Act which sees marriage as ‘between a man and a woman’ – a view the Prime Minister has reiterated his commitment to since the Sunday conference in Tasmania. In the lead-up to the national conference Rudd has today indicated that despite the recent move from Tasmania ALP and pressure from gay and lesbian rights groups his stance on the issue will not change. In a statement to The Australian Rudd’s spokesman said “We support the removal of discrimination from same-sex couples and from de facto heterosexual couples when it comes to basic arrangements in terms of tax superannuation and the rest and also a nationally consistent relationships register but when it comes to civil unions as it is described civil unions mean the effective amendment of the Marriage Act and that is something we don’t support. ”In the same report the Australian Christian Lobby indicated it had conceded enough rights to the gay movement and that support for marriage was out of the question asking Rudd to reaffirm his commitment to heterosexual Australia. “Minority lifestyles should be respected but cannot be expected to dictate society norms as this 2per cent or less of the population seems intent on doing” ACL managing director Jim Wallace told The Australian.