Tasmania’s Journal of Discovery

Here’s one of the best videos we’ve found that features Tassie’s greatest surfing destination – the irrepressible Shipsterns Bluff.

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Photographs by Matt Newton and Rob Blakers.

Anti-pulp mill activists will ratchet up their campaign to stop the $1.9billion Gunns project with a boycott of its corporate backers, according to The Mercury.

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According to James Kirby in The Age today:

The commercial logic of Tasmania’s new pulp mill is crumbling by the day. If only Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull could have delayed his approval for the monster mill a few more months, he might have saved himself a lot of bother.

It’s extraordinary really, but in the six weeks since Turnbull signed off on the application from Gunns Ltd, bankers to the mill are dithering, while the builder doesn’t think it will go ahead.

While Gunns chief executive John Gay has been looking over his shoulder threatening court action against environmentalists, he should have been looking straight ahead, because some stockbrokers have been losing faith in the company and are now arguing the mill could be a flop.

The backlash against Gunns from inside the market is based on fears that current high pulp prices cannot be sustained; forecasters believe pulp prices will begin a steep plunge in two year’s time, just as the mill is set to open.”

There’s more.

Hobart firemen in the thick of it. Photographs above by James Moult. See more of his dramatic photography in this gallery.
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Pier One

Wrest Point, Sandy Bay

Char-Grilled Beef Tenderloin with Leek, Crayfish and Scallop Pie on Port-Wine Jus, Fresh Asparagus

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Stilllwater

Launceston

Warm Preserved Quince with King Island Admiralty Blue, Raisin Toast and Quince Jelly

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Tonight, Tasmanians will be able to view a total lunar eclipse.

Shevill Mathers from Southern Cross Observatory, Cambridge, together with Discovery Science Channel TV, is filming the total lunar eclipse that will be happening tonight, August 28, 2007.

It will be visible in its entirety for all of Eastern Australia and New Zealand.

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Tasmanian artist Belinda Kurczok has won the People’s Choice Award in Adelaide’s 2007 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize for her lifelike gouache painting of two white-bellied sea eagles.

Named after Frederick George Waterhouse, the South Australian Museum’s first curator, the Waterhouse Art Prize is Australia’s richest prize for natural history art.

Kurczok, 28, received her $5000 prize and a ticket to Malaysia at a presentation ceremony at the museum last night.

The top prize was won by Victorian artist Heather Marsh.

Peppermint Bay

Woodbridge

Braised Organic Shin of Black Angus Beef ‘en Daube’

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Da Angelos

Battery Point

Gnocchi Portofino

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