News from Tasmania
Launceston weather forecast: A trough in Bass Strait will weaken today as a high moves over the south of Tasmania during the day, then moves over the Tasman Sea by evening. A north to northeasterly stream develops on Wednesday as a front approaches from the west, which will cross Tasmania during the day on Thursday. A ridge will follow behind the front and extend across southern Tasmania on Friday as a trough lingers through Bass Strait.
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► Huon Aquaculture has filed legal proceedings against the state government and the Tasmanian Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) in both the Tasmanian Supreme Court and the Federal Court. The fish farming company claimed the government and the EPA had failed to effectively regulate salmon farming activity in Macquarie Harbour. Read more.
►Tennis is all about numbers – ask the tireless Launceston International organisers. Not the 40-love or two sets to one kind. But like two – the number of days it takes to place signage, scoreboards, coolers, bins and cameras. Read more.
► Hospitality providers across Launceston are preparing for a bumper weekend with most of the city’s accommodation almost booked out according to Tourism Northern Tasmania chief Chris Griffin. “We are in the middle of our peak summer season but with a major event like Festivale happening it pretty much sells what rooms were left,” he said. Read more.
State of the nation
Need a national news snapshot first thing - well, we have you covered.
►Police say the partner of a 20-year-old Victorian woman killed when two jet skis crashed at high speed in waters off the Thai resort island of Phuket will be charged with reckless driving causing death.
► MELBOURNE: A brief of evidence compiled by detectives investigating claims of sexual abuse made against Ballarat’s Cardinal George Pell has been returned to prosecutors for review.
► HUNTER: Children entering kindergarten in 2017 will be old enough to have their own kids in school by the time the state’s education maintenance backlog is caught up, new figures reveal.
Labor has accused the Berejiklian government of failing “a generation of children” after documents released under freedom of information laws revealed there is $775 million in outstanding maintenance on the state’s schools. Read on
► MOUNT ISA: Mount Isa MP Robbie Katter has flagged concerns about the lack of consultation in the North West regarding a Bill investigating the impact of FIFO on communities.
Regional public hearings on the Strong and Sustainable Resource Communities Bill 2016 are set to be held this month but not one of them will be in the North West Minerals Province.
► MUDGEE: A disturbing social media post regarding the death of a number of dogs in Gulgong, has sparked an investigation.
The post on the Mudgee Community Group page claimed – “a Navara Utility, with a canopy, parked in Gulgong - which had four dogs in the back, was left for the majority of the day with no water.”
► BENDIGO: Bill Johnson never expected to be involved in a crash.
The closest the Eaglehawk truck driver of 25 years had come to an accident was attending crash scenes during his volunteer work with the CFA.
So when a car was suddenly coming straight at his truck on the Midland Highway in Goornong on Sunday afternoon, it was unknown territory. Read on
National news
►Conservative MPs are scrambling to prevent a push by Liberal MPs to allow a free vote on same-sex marriage, warning "this is not a fight we should be having now".
The chances of the issue being debated in the partyroom meeting scheduled for this week receded on Monday, swamped by the revelation that South Australian Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi planned to resign as soon as Tuesday and set up a new party.
► An international yachtsman was allegedly duped into the biggest cocaine bust in Australian history when his first mate suddenly changed the co-ordinates of their boat, his wife says.
► A Sydney Uber driver accused of raping a woman in the back seat of his car says she called him handsome and asked to have sex while he protested that he had a family.
► A safe drug-injecting room for Melbourne will be considered by the Andrews government after a spate of overdose deaths.
Political support for the controversial idea is gathering pace amid concern that the government's tough-on-crime approach has taken the focus off harm minimisation.
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International news
► WASHINGTON: There's madness in the method of this White House. But what's the objective – is it merely to give Donald Trump's critics whiplash, or is it an opening blitzkrieg of orders and insults that calculatedly defines a new 'normal,' by which the outrageous becomes just irritating?
► INDONESIA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo is slated to visit Australia at the end of this month, with Jakarta confirming its outgoing ambassador Najib Riphat Kesoema had been asked to stay on for the presidential trip.
On this day
The faces of Australia: Emily Ernesti
In October 2014, Emily Ernesti was a regular 13 year old who attended school, hung out with her friends, played sport, and always had a smile on her faces.
Unfortunately Emily’s life was ripped apart when, after several weeks of feeling unwell, a test revealed that she had a brain tumor. Read on
