30 Sep 08 | BUILDING approvals in Tasmania hit the wall in August, down 28.2 per cent, but retail sales in the State continued to grow.
30 Sep 08 | SYDNEY - The former directors of construction company James Hardie misled investors about their ability to meet their liabilities to compensate asbestos victims, a Sydney court has heard.
The Austra...
30 Sep 08 | Metals
METAL CLOSED MOVED $US $US Aluminium 2449 +3 Copper 6840 -108 Lead 1965 -25 Nickel 16885 +60 Silver 13.18 -0.16 Tin 18295 +560 Zinc 1763 -26
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30 Sep 08 | THE Tamar Valley's hospital ball saw more than 100 people get dressed up and support their local community this month.
The $1500 raised on the night was donated to the George Town Hospital and...
30 Sep 08 | Break O' Day Council has advised the Department of Primary Industries and Water on its position on the proposed Statewide Cat Management Policy. In its submission, council recognised the danger to wildlife that cats may pose, and advised the department it...
30 Sep 08 | The 12th annual Tasmanian Seafarers Memorial service will be held at Triabunna on Sunday, October 19. The memorial now contains 87 plaques, representing about 2000 sailors who lost their lives at sea.
30 Sep 08 | A 21-year-old West Hobart man been remanded in custody after appearing in court in connection to a fatal stabbing.
30 Sep 08 | The Longford Districts Little Athletics Centre season will open this weekend, at the Longford Football Ground. Children aged under six to under-15 boys and girls are welcomed to attend. For more information contact Rachel Gibson on 63981196. The season starts at 8.30am.
30 Sep 08 | The Perth and Evandale Residents Community Association will hold a public meeting with the Northern Midlands Council on Thursday.
The meeting will discuss the future of the Western Junc...
30 Sep 08 | Country fund-raiser: A Country and Western night at Scottsdale RSL on Saturday night raised more than $750 for the club, organiser Robert Jaffray said.
Mr Jaffray said that a debt of gratitude was ow...
30 Sep 08 | THE North-East Tasmania Chamber of Commerce, North- East Tasmania Tourism and Dorset Council last week combined to host a leaders' luncheon at Scottsdale.
Chamber of Commerce president Wayne Cut...
30 Sep 08 | The Beauty Point Bowls Club will hold a soup and sandwich day at the club, on Wednesday, October 8, at 11.30am. Bingo will be played and all welcome. For more information contact Helen Rosevear on 63831275.
30 Sep 08 | The Mahjong Club plays every Friday night, at 7pm, at Tresca Community Centre, Exeter. All levels welcome. Gold coin donation. Call Andy or Margaret on 63961295.
30 Sep 08 | The West Tamar junior cricket club under-12 training has started at Exeter cricket ground. All new and past players aged from 8-12 years welcome. Training dates for the under-14s and under-16s will be advised in a few weeks.
30 Sep 08 | Fatalities as
at Monday, September 29:
2008 - 31
2007 - 38
Serious injuries as
at Monday, September 29:
2008 - 179
2007 - 245
- Figures supplied
by the Road
Safet...
30 Sep 08 | WELLINGTON - One of the world's biggest exporters of hugely expensive dairy protein lactoferrin suspended exports in order to clarify how it was contaminated by melamine.
Morrinsville-based Tatu...
30 Sep 08 | MELBOURNE - An ATM and a butcher shop have been destroyed in a bombing at a shopping centre in a northern Melbourne suburb.
Police said it was the first time criminals had used a bomb to blow up an ...
30 Sep 08 | Ian Thorpe has dropped his case against one of the French defendants in a defamation suit over doping claims. Thorpe is suing the daily sports newspaper L'Equipe, its publisher, and journalist Dam...
30 Sep 08 | CANBERRA - Australians want the Government to invest profits from an emissions trading scheme in renewable energy not the coal industry, a Newspoll shows.
The poll, commissioned by Greenpeace Austra...
30 Sep 08 | The price of petrol dropped nearly 2c in the past week, the first fall in six weeks, fresh data shows. A firmer Australian dollar was largely responsible for the drop, Commsec chief equities economist Craig James said. Figures from the Australian Institute of Petroleum...
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