Tasmanian farmers want banks to support water rights
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- Tasmanian farmers want banks to support water rights
- New England blood delivers dollars for Tasmania
- Australia’s Tatts Group Pulls ut of Tote Tasmania Bid
- Tasmania well placed to weather economic downturn
- Tas MPs consider equal rights for lesbian parents
- A little bay of sunshine
Tasmanian farmers want banks to support water rights
ABC nline
The TFGA says some financiers are still reluctant to lend money to farmers to buy rights to water in Tasmania’s new irrigation schemes. Chief executive Chris ldfield says he’s meeting bankers today to put the National Water Commission argument that water rights are a bankable asset. “It is stated that a water right that is purchased has all the protection of a mortgagable transferable inheritable document. In other words a water right becomes just like buying property” he says.
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New England blood delivers dollars for Tasmania
Stock and Land
The what he calls niche industry will deliver money because its quality and unique handling ability cannot be easily replicated. Also on the hilly bushland run country his 2800 hectare Tasmanian midland property at Ross contains Merino sheep have time- and time-again proven to be the most cost-effective option. But much has changed since he and wife Nina took over the reigns at Ashby. In the late 1980s over 170000 bales of wool was being produced throughout Tasmania. Next year Australia Wool Testing Authority forecast the total number of bales produced to be around 38000 due to the states’ sheep flock almost halving from 3. 2 million sheep in 2005 to 1.
Australia’s Tatts Group Pulls ut of Tote Tasmania Bid
Gaming Intelligence Group (registration)
Earlier this year the Tasmanian government said it intended to sell TTE Tasmania via a competitive bid process in order to increase funding to the Tasmanian racing industry. The sale would also ensure its long-term sustainability by improving its competitive position compared to other privatised TABs in New South Wales Queensland Victoria and South Australia. The successful bidder would obtain the assets of Tote Tasmania and the Tasmanian Gaming Licence for an initial fifty years which is then renewable for a further forty-nine years. The successful bidder would also have the exclusive right to operate pari-mutuel wagering in Tasmania for a period of fifteen years under the regulatory oversight of the Tasmanian Gaming Commission.
Tasmania well placed to weather economic downturn
The Australian
Leading economist Saul Eslake told The Australian he believed those forecasts – 0. 75 per cent negative growth this financial year and 7 per cent unemployment rising to 8. 25 per cent in 2010-11 – would be revised in the mid-financial year report. Premier David Bartlett told The Australian he was "very optimistic" the state economy would go "nowhere near" the "worst-case scenario" estimates.
Tas MPs consider equal rights for lesbian parents
ABC nline
Victoria passed laws late last year allowing IVF babies to have two legally recognised mothers and the Tasmanian Government had a similar move blocked in the Upper House six years ago. Tasmania’s Gay and Lesbian rights group says joint motherhood is now recognised in most states and territories and Tasmania should do the same. The Attorney-General Lara Giddings has told State Parliament the change would remove discrimination and protect children in same-sex relationships. “As the law stands the birth-mother is registered as the mother and the partner has no rights at law” said Ms Giddings. “This bill will rectify that situation and put a same-sex partner in the same position as a male partner who has agreed to their partner becoming pregnant through ART. ” The Liberals have been granted a conscience vote.
A little bay of sunshine
The Age
Killer butts indeed! These fine facts and more I learn on the four-day Bay of Fires walk. We have stopped to investigate the rather unusual “marsupial lawns” behind the sand dunes of the Bay of Fires. These lawns are sometimes referred to as the Serengeti of Tasmania. Perhaps a bit of an exaggeration but they are home to the Big Five of the local marsupial world ? the Forester kangaroo the Bennetts wallaby the Tasmanian pademelon the common wombat and the Tasmanian devil. If a Tassie tiger ever raised its head I’m sure this is where it would pop up. ur walk begins at Stumpy Bay in Mt William National Park in the north-eastern corner of the state. ur group consisting of five women from three states plus two Tasmanian guides wastes no time in getting down to business.
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