Sentences with phrase «tasmania as»

The Tasmanian Premier has personal responsibility for Aboriginal Affairs in Tasmania as the Office of Aboriginal Affairs is within his portfolio and is located within the Department of Premier and Cabinet.

Newly opened Macq 01 Hotel offers a chic place stay and countless galleries, such as The Mona, position Tasmania as an exciting destination in its own right.

It has killed more than 80 % of Tasmanian devils since 1996 and there has been an 84 % decrease in devil sightings across Tasmania as of February 2011.

You could have walked from Victoria to Tasmania as recently as 10,000 years ago.

You'll recognise the beaches of eastern Tasmania as soon as you see them - they're the perfectly - shaped ones on the cover of all the tourist brochures and on all the travel posters.

Additionally, free range enclosures are being built in Tasmania as natural habitats for the animals to live and reproduce, protected from a diseased population.

As the penumbra slides under the bottom of the Earth, the partial eclipse is visible in varying extent across the icy land continent and just as it begins to slide back out into space it (just barely) manages to pass over Tasmania as well as portions of New Zealand's South Island.

«Our faith in the local land, conditions and climate has well and truly paid off, proving Tasmania as a region capable of growing premium winemaking fruit on a consistent basis.»

Flight three (2004 - 2014) was significant with the introduction of screw caps, a focus on the Yarra Valley and Tasmania as the fruit source and a desire to create a truly Australian Chardonnay.

Winemakers are rushing to Tasmania as the country's traditional wine growing regions including the Barossa, the Hunter Valley and Margaret River grow ever hotter and drier.

Not exact matches

The combined business will own a betting shop network spanning Victoria, NSW, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory and an online wagering business across the TAB, UBet and Luxbet brands that would be the largest in the country as measured by turnover — though the UBet brand will be phased out and replaced by the TAB brand across retail outlets.

Boreham was born in England and spent his entire adult life as a pastor in New Zealand, Tasmania and Australia in the early to mid twentieth century.

This year unfortunately I won't be seeing my mother for brunch (or at all) on Mother's Day as she's currently living in Western Australia, two plane flights away... But the good news is that she is actually in the process of moving back to Tasmania, down to Hobart!

The world's first commercial robotic milking rotary, known as the automatic milking rotary (AMR), was installed at the Gala dairy farm in northern Tasmania, Australia, in February 2012.

DeLaval's Automatic Milking Rotary (AMR), Australia The world's first commercial robotic milking rotary, known as the automatic milking rotary (AMR), was installed at the Gala dairy farm in northern Tasmania, Australia, in February 2012.

Australia's largest dairy is using a palm oil product — linked to the deforestation of orangutan habitat and biosecurity scares — in cow feed while promoting its product as based on Tasmania's pristine pastures.

Matilda Scott, Conara, Tasmania, has been awarded the 2018 Golden Stencil, as a part of the AWEX / TAFE National Graduate Wool Classer Competition, held at the Sydney Royal Easter Show.

That has prompted many major growers such as Treasury Wine Estates to look for cooler climate vineyards in places like the southernmost island state of Tasmania.

Initially, this was to the other colonies Britain was establishing in the region, such as Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), Western Australia, New Zealand and South Australia.

From Hunter Valley to cooler region such as Adelaide Hills, Yarra Valley and Tasmania to warmer regions in Margaret River, the country provides a contrast of styles between the leaner, crisp style found in Adelaide Hills and riper, richer style in Margaret River.

The nation's biggest dairy exporter on Friday unveiled plans to invest $ 74 million in a cheese cut and wrap facility at Cobram in Victoria, while $ 38 million will be spent increasing production capacity for nutritionals such as infant formula, and $ 14 million is earmarked to install and commission a flexible small cup and bottle filling line at Edith Creek in Tasmania.

As the country's traditional wine growing regions including the Barossa, the Hunter Valley and Margaret River grow ever hotter and drier, winemakers are rushing to the tiny island state of Tasmania.

All states except Western Australia recorded declines in employment and, naturally, Tasmania came in as the perennial holder of record with 7.7 per cent unemployment.

It's done so with its leatherwood honey, a distinctive, Tasmania - only food that relies on the island's cool temperate rainforests as forage for its bees and, in those forests, it relies on only one species.

We had to crank her up yesterday as a cyclone was drowning Queensland and pushed a fair bit of bad weather all the way down the east coast of Australia to little old Tasmania where our garden got its very first drink in a month and a half and we enjoyed being able to use Brunhilda to the max!

Penny adds, «we are thrilled to be so prominently associated with Tasmania's growing reputation as an exporter of premium wines.

Tasmania Wine Jobs — Find wine jobs in such Tasmania areas as Hobart area, Launceston area, North - West Tasmania, Tamar Valley, North - East Tasmania, East Coast, Coal River Valley, Derwent Valley, and Huon / Channel.

As for the urchin, Mr Hayward says the development of harvesting will have to be managed carefully so Tasmania's environmental credentials are not tarnished through association with invasive species.

But the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) said jobs at the Cobram plant, in Victoria's north, may also be affected, as well as at Longford in Tasmania.

From cool climate regions in Tasmania and Victoria such as the Coal River and Yarra Valleys, through to warmer regions like McLaren Vale in South Australia and Frankland River in Western Australia.

In recent years India and Taiwan have emerged as leading warm climate whisky producers while the southern Australian island of Tasmania has long been known as a hot spot for high quality single malts.

The «sky's the limit» for Tasmania's growing wine industry, as winemakers celebrate international successes unimaginable five years ago.

The third race of the 2017 Supercars Championship at the Symmons Plains circuit in Tasmania had its own Spa «98 moment as wet conditions contributed to an accident on lap two which involved almost half the field.

Recently, Maggie and her husband settled in rural Tasmania where she continues to enjoy her work as a CBI trainer, supporting students who feel inspired and passionate about birth.

In South Australia, there was no significant increase in infant and early childhood deaths attributed to gastric aspiration as supine sleeping became more common.14 A prospective study in Tasmania, Australia, was conducted to determine the relationship between sleeping position and parental report of cyanosis, pallor, and breathing difficulties.

Simon's brother David also served as Treasurer of Tasmania in the 1990s.

ESA predicts that any latitude between 42.8 ° N (so as far north as Chicago) and 42.8 ° S (down to Tasmania) is fair game.

The plume from the eruption — the volcanoes» first in more than two decades — was so great it was seen from space and spread as far as Tasmania.

Since its first recorded sighting in 1996, devil facial tumor disease (DFTD) has maintained a steady westward march in Tasmania, depleting devil populations by as much as 90 percent in some areas.

The Tasmanian Devil, also referred to simply as «the devil», is a carnivorous marsupial now found only in the Australian island state of Tasmania.

Researchers at the Menzies Centre for Population Health Research in Hobart have found that in Tasmania between 1983 and 1992, there were almost twice as many lung cancer cases among women aged between 25 and 44 years as in men of the same age.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, they found that most songbirds first appeared in Australasia — the ancient landmass that included Australia, New Guinea, Tasmania, and parts of Indonesia — not in Eurasia, as was long believed.

POWRANNA Australia (Reuters)- Thousands of Black Angus bulls snort steam gently into the frigid early morning air at Tasmania's largest cattle feedlot as they jostle for space at a long grain trough.

DFTD is an asexually reproducing clonal cell line, which during the last 16 years has been exposed to negative effects as infected devils, approximately 33 % of the population, have been removed from one site, the Forestier Peninsula, in Tasmania between 2006 and 2010.

Its wine industry is thriving as climate change pressures major producers to move from traditional grape - growing regions on the mainland to Tasmania's cooler climes.

For their work Maksym and co-investigators Guy Williams from the University of Hobart, Tasmania and Jeremy Wilkinson of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK, used a robot known as an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to cruise under ice in three regions near the coast and measure the thickness directly over a much larger area.

«We refer to them as the weeds of the sea,» jokes Gretta Pecl, a marine biologist at the University of Tasmania in Australia who wasn't involved with the study.

«The discovery of living stromatolites in Tasmania is highly significant because stromatolites are rare globally and not previously known from Tasmania except as ancient fossils,» Mr Eberhard said.

The post originally appeared as a press release on the University of Tasmania website.

As the cancer spread across Tasmania, she and her coworkers collected DNA from devils in three places.