01 Oct 09 | TODAY
Stage 5: SMITHTON TO STANLEY Start: 11am. Road race: Via Menga, Forest South Forest, with 10 laps of 7.9km lookout circuit at Stanley.
Finish: 2pm.
Distance: 116.5km. Sprints:
01 Oct 09 | TASMANIA'S political leaders yesterday offered condolences to the family of Longford woman Maree Blacker, who was among the dead in the tsunami in Samoa.
"On behalf of all Tasmanians
01 Oct 09 | FLOWERY GULLY cyclist Bernard Sulzberger has extended his lead in the Tour of Tasmania, but still has not won a stage.
Not that he hasn't been in the mix.
Here Sulzberger (left) misses
01 Oct 09 | CATTLE producers are invited to have their say about the future of Angus Australia.
The society has a new constitution, a new head - Peter Parnell - and board.
Tasmanian secretary Malcolm
01 Oct 09 | Fatalities as
at Monday, Sep. 28:
2009 - 53
2008 - 30
Serious injuries as
at Monday, Sep. 28:
2009 - 217
2008 - 182
- Figures supplied
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01 Oct 09 | CANBERRA - AFL talent manager Kevin Sheehan says young gun Tom Scully is a clear standout among this year's crop of potential draftees.
Scully, 18, is in Canberra this week participating in th
01 Oct 09 | Three- time premier jockey Craig Williams became the first Victorian rider to be suspended for a breach of the new whip rules.
Williams pleaded guilty to striking his mount Flying Tessie 10 times b
30 Sep 09 | LONGFORD woman Maree Blacker has been killed in the Samoan tsunami. Mrs Blacker, 50, was holidaying with her husband John when the tsunami hit the Pacific
Islands this morning . . .
30 Sep 09 | CARLTON has run out of patience with disgraced full-forward Brendan Fevola and will put the AFL's Coleman Medallist up for trade.
30 Sep 09 | A 50-YEAR OLD Northern Tasmanian woman is believed to have been killed in the Samoan tsunami. Three other Australians are in hospital after an undersea earthquake . . .
30 Sep 09 | PASSENGERS with flights booked from Australia to Samoa in the next week will be able to change or cancel them without incurring fees.
30 Sep 09 | Time to move on
IT WAS bad enough watching
protesters ‘‘flying’’ through the
forests pretending to be angels in
their futile ‘‘Save the Forest’’
pageant. Now we have to watch greyhaired
nomads having a last ditch
attempt at saving the forests, all to
atone for their baby boomer guilt.
30 Sep 09 | Light bulbs
The new compact fluoro
light bulbs can cost
anywhere from $5 to $20
depending on their
application and they don’t
last half as long as they are
supposed to.
— NATASHA
30 Sep 09 | TASMANIAN cyclist Bernard Sulzberger's hot streak continued as he took the lead in his home state tour yesterday.
Just a couple of days after victory in a gale-lashed Launceston to New Norfolk . . .
30 Sep 09 | REDMOND, Washington - Microsoft Corp says its new computer security program can be downloaded starting today.
Microsoft Security Essentials, as the free antivirus software is called, has been
30 Sep 09 | Rudd address
A GREAT deal has been made in the media of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd addressing the UN General Assembly (The Examiner, Sep.
27).
What a pity there appeared to be less t
30 Sep 09 | HANOI - More than 100,000 people have been evacuated from the path of Typhoon Ketsana as it bears down on central Vietnam, an official says.
As a weaker tropical storm, Ketsana battered the Philip
30 Sep 09 | A 3.5 per cent rise in Motor Accident Insurance Board premiums has been recommended by the Government Prices Oversight Commission.
Tabled in Parliament yesterday, a pricing policies report says tha
30 Sep 09 | SAMOA resident Bill Martin talks about the terror of today's earthquake and tsunami. It all shook, shook, shook, the house moved, not just rattled, moved and the ground was shaking us, the trees. We all fled in a hurry, running ...
30 Sep 09 | GENERATORS have been stolen from Telstra towers following power blackouts across the North-West.
Both Telstra and ABC services in Burnie have been powered by generators since the power blackou
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