Tasmania’s Ambrose turns it up in first full Sprint Cup season
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- Tasmania’s Ambrose turns it up in first full Sprint Cup season
- Shot putters make quick exit in Berlin
- The Greens have been brought in from the cold for Tasmania’s first …
- Before Little England
Tasmania’s Ambrose turns it up in first full Sprint Cup season
USA Today
A more likely reason is because he wasn’t sure how long he’d stay here. If that sounds strange for a driver who has spent more than three months in the top 20 in points with an outside chance for the final spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup until recently consider the Tasmanian’s belief that he had to make the most of his opportunity as soon as possible. Certainly Ambrose was going to get the benefit of the doubt from a full Cup schedule with JTG Daugherty Racing after just 11 starts last year with three teams. Then again acting like he’s still on a tryout has served him well. “This was a make-or-break year for me” said Ambrose 32 who stands 18th entering Sunday’s Heluva Good Dips at The Glen Cup race. “I was either going to pack my bags or buy a new house.
Shot putters make quick exit in Berlin
Sydney Morning Herald
nthat basis you’d have to suspect that Amelzark and Martin – bothmainstays of Australian teams in recent years but well below theirbest here – will not figure much in the future. Poland’s lympic gold medallist Tomasz Majewski was the topqualifier in the event while current world champion and favouritehere American Reese Hoffa made it through qualifying in seventhplace overall. The early news did not get any better for Australia asTasmania’s Macfarlane finished a disappointing 12th in her heat 34seconds short of her personal best with a time of 9. Themother of two who retired after the Sydney lympics to raise afamily but came back in late 2005 after missing the challenge ofcompetition could not keep pace with the leaders. Russia’s goldmedal favourite Gulnara Galkina was easily the fastest qualifierflying home in the same heat as Macfarlane but in a far better timeof 9.
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The Greens have been brought in from the cold for Tasmania’s first …
ABC nline
Tasmania’s three state political leaders will take part in their first debate in two weeks ahead of the March election focusing on economic issues. At the last election the Labor and Liberal parties refused to allow the Greens a seat at the leader debates. Greens Leader Nick McKim says he also wants to debate the merits of minority government. “I think it’s time for a debate about the merits of a power sharing parliament with a cooperative and constructive approach from political leaders. “This is the key here.
Before Little England
The Monthly (subscription)
"ne of Tasmania's least-known convict sites is to be found in roughly the spot where Marcus Clarke ill-prepared generations of readers for one of the set-pieces of Australian fiction. Follow a dirt track 23 kilometres off the Lake Leake Highway cross a foul-smelling creek climb a steep bank and you emerge into a clearing reminiscent of an Inca encampment: half a dozen stone buildings roofless with tall gums thrusting up through the foundations. A paved path leads to a well and further on to a headstone of red rock carved with the name of Thomas Collins who died in 1843 aged 36 after a stone crushed his skull. These ruins are the remains of the Long Marsh Dam a project by local landowners to harness free convict labour and irrigate 540 acres of farmland from the Macquarie River. At one time 279 men lived here.
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