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SPORT
Richmond win the Grand Final
ABC News, 30 Sep 2017
 Despite domination by the Adelaide Crows early in the
game, the Richmond Tigers, featuring Tasmania's Jack Riewoldt, have won the AFL Grand Final..
TASMANIAN
ABORIGINALS
Grim tales studied
ABC News, 30 Sep 2017
The stories of a local Aboriginal who was hanged in Melbourne
and the Cape Grim Aboriginal massacre were the focus of studies
by a group of Smithton High School students..
 WEATHER ALERT
Snow
and ice to 300m
BoM website, 29 Sep
2017
Snow and ice will make a number
of Tasmanian roads above 300 metres dangerous tomorrow (Saturday)
morning...
Road closures: see
Tas Police
community
alerts
BoM
warnings
TASMANIAN
POLITICS
Speaker Archer now in Cabinet
ABC News, 28 Sep 2017
 House of Assembly Speaker Louise
Archer has been promoted to Cabinet in a reshuffle that follows the
resignation of Matthew Groom and today's announcement that
former Attorney-General Vanessa Goodwin will resign..
Cabinet arrangements, Will Hodgman, Premier, 28 Sep 2017
Cabinet portfolios, Will Hodgman, Premier, 28 Sep 2017
Resignation of Vanessa Goodwin, Will Hodgman, Premier, 28
Sep 2017
Restore House of Assembly numbers to 35, Cassy O'Connor,
Greens leader, 28 Sep 2017
WOMEN'S SPORT
AFLW Tassie Kangaroos side created
ABC News, 27 Sep 2017
A Tasmania-North
Melbourne side will be one of two new AFLW teams to be added to
the existing eight in 2019..
Tassie Kangaroos to join AFLW, Will Hodgman, Premier, 27 Sep
2017
Facilities and grounds upgrades needed, Madeleine Ogilvie,
Opposition local government spokesperson, TasLabor website, 28
Sep 2017
ROAD SAFETY
Cycle passing law starts today
Tas Govt media release, 27 Sep 2017
 From today, a motorist passing a cyclist must leave
a safe distance of:
- 1 metre at up to 60km/h, and
- 1.5 metres above 60km/h..
Cyclists page, Road Safety Advisory Council website
DRIVER EDUCATION
Drive to work
Tas Govt media release, 25 Sep 2017
 Bridgewater's Jordan River Learning Federation and
Southern Central Trade Training Centre have been selected as
pilots for the state government's Driving for Jobs
driver education program, infrastructure minister Rene Hidding
announced today..
 EARLY CHILDHOOD
AEDC early learning grants announced
Tas Govt media release, 23 Sep 2017
Twelve
recipients of Australian Early Development Census grants have
been announced by education minister Jeremy Rockliff...
NEW ZEALAND
ELECTION
Nationals ahead but coalition needed
ABC News, 23 Sep 2017
New Zealand's National Party led by Bill English
has performed strongly ahead of the resurgent Labour Party led
by new leader Jacinda Ardern in the New Zealand election.
It
appears most likely that the Nationals will form a
coalition with the New Zealand First Party, although a
Labour-based coalition cannot be ruled out...
 TASMANIAN POLITICS
Groom to step down
ABC News, 23 Sep 2017
Tasmanian minister Matthew Groom
has announced he will step down from Cabinet for family reasons
and will not contest the next election...
FEDERAL POLITICS
Senator was UK citizen
ABC News, 22 Sep 2017
 One Nation senator Malcolm
Roberts was a British citizen at the time of his nomination for election to the
Australian Parliament, a High Court judge has determined...
WATERFRONT SECURITY
Man charged over alleged headbutt
ABC News, 22 Sep 2017
 A 38-year-old man has been charged with common
assault after former prime minister Tony Abbott was allegedly
headbutted on Hobart's waterfront...
NATURAL DISASTERS
Mexico earthquake kills 230
ABC News, 21 Sep 2017 (UPDATED)
A severe earthquake in the Mexico City area has
killed at least 230 people, including at least 22 children who
were at school at the time...
 TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Windermere to get new early learning centre
Tas Govt media release, 18 Sep 2017
A new $5.5 million early
learning centre is expected to be completed at Windermere
Primary School by early 2018...
LITERACY AND NUMERACY
Year 1 literacy and numeracy testing?
ABC News, 18 Sep 2017
 Federal education minister Simon
Birmingham will discuss with other education ministers his
panel's recommendation that all Year 1 students undergo
one-on-one oral literacy and numeracy testing in third term.
The literacy tests would be run along the lines of the UK's
phonics screening tests..
Need for action on Year 1
literacy, numeracy checks, Simon Birmingham, Minister for
Education and Training, 18 Sep 2017
Year One Check website including link to report
England's phonics test has not improved literacy there, The
Conversation (opinion by Misty Adoniou), 18 Sep 2017
THREATENED SPECIES
Male primary teachers falling
The Conversation (Kevin F. McGrath and Penny Van
Bergen), 18 Sep 2017
 At the present rate of decline,
male primary school teachers will be extinct in government
schools by 2054, denying children the opportunity, for example,
of observing male and female role models interacting
cooperatively and in a non-violent way, two academics write...
Male teachers at risk of
extinction, The Examiner, 19 Sep 2017
WEATHER ALERT
Damaging
winds on Monday
BoM website, 17 Sep
2017
 Damaging winds gusting to 100km/h are expected on
Monday in all areas of Tasmania except the north and north-east.
UPDATE 4.40pm Mon: The winds are easing...
BoM
warnings
TERRORISM
Second terror suspect
arrested
BBC News, 17 Sep 2017
 British police now hold a 21-year-old as well as an 18-year-old
in connection with the recent London Tube explosion...
 TEACHING PROFESSION
'Inspirational robots' to replace teachers
The Telegraph (UK), 15 Sep 2017
Within ten years robots that can read students'
facial expressions and brains will be able to adapt to students'
learning styles and give them one-on-one learning, UK
educationalist Sir Anthony Seldon says...
RAIL SAFETY EDUCATION
Call for lessons in railway safety
The Mercury [pdf], 14 Sep 2017
 An experienced TasRail train
driver has called for a program of rail safety awareness lessons
to be run in Tasmanian schools in order to reach students before
they become the kind of car drivers who might ignore railway
crossing warning signs...
STUDENT SUPPORT
Does discussing self-harm and suicide encourage it?
The Conversation (opinion by Sarah Stanford), 13 Sep 2017
 Research findings "at this point in time" suggest
that talking about self-harm and suicide can save lives if done
the right way and according to research-backed programs, an
academic writes...
DEFAMATION
Rebel Wilson wins $4.5m in defamation action
ABC News, 13 Sep 2017
 Actress Rebel Wilson has been
awarded more than $4.5 million in her defamation case over
magazine stories that made out she was a serial liar...
SCHOOL UNIFORM
Skirts skirted
ABC News, 13 Sep 2017
 All Victorian government schools
will be required to allow girls to wear shorts or pants instead
of dresses or skirts, the state government has announced...
CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change made hurricanes worse
The Conversation (opinion by Andrew King), 12 Sep 2017
 The devastation caused by the
two hurricanes that have hit the Caribbean islands and the USA
has been made worse by the effects of climate change, a Climate
Extremes Research Fellow writes, arguing that warmer air
temperatures allow more moisture to be carried and rising sea
levels cause greater storm surges...
STUDENT HEALTH AND
NUTRITION
Healthy school meals key to students' hearts
The Examiner, 9 Sep 2017
School-provided meals that are low in simple
carbohydrates such as sugar could reduce heart disease in
adulthood not only by reducing childhood obesity but by setting
students up for life with good nutrition habits, Launceston
cardiologist Dr Geoff Evans says ...
 TAFE
TAFE Chair resigns
Tas Govt media release, 8 Sep 2017
The Chair of the TasTAFE Board, Nick Burrows, has
resigned, education minister Jeremy Rockliff announced
today...
WEATHER ALERT
Icy
roads to persist
BoM website, 8 Sep
2017
 Continued snow and ice on roads
will make driving conditions difficult tonight (Friday) and
tomorrow (Saturday)...
Road closures: see
Tas Police
community
alerts
BoM
warnings page
WEATHER ALERT
Snow
closes schools
ABC News, 8 Sep
2017
 Snow has closed several schools for today (Friday)
and is making many roads dangerous or impassable...
SCHOOL CLOSURES
as at 7.48am:
 Collinsvale Primary
Franklin Primary
Geeveston Primary
Huonville Primary
Huonville High
Sacred Heart at Geeveston
(not Huonville as advised earlier)
UPDATE: Cygnet Primary is OPEN
(contrary to earlier advice)
See
DoE
Alerts for
the latest government school closures - and check your
phone for SMS messages, as well as your email
and your own school's Facebook page
TasLearn Weather Closures
page
DoE
Facebook
Road closures: see
Tas Police
community
alerts
BoM
warnings
THREATENED SPECIES
More "Tassie tiger" photos emerge
ABC News, 7 Sep 2017
A few more recently taken
photographs and videos of alleged Tasmanian tigers have come to
light...
COMPUTER SECURITY
eBay, Voice Message ransomware alert
StaySmartOnline, 7 Sep 2017
 Ransomware is currently
infecting the computers of people who click on links in two
separate fake emails: one purportedly from eBay, and the other
masquerading as a "Voice Message"...
FEDERAL
POLITICS
Same-sex marriage survey
to go ahead
ABC News, 2.21pm 7 Sep 2017
The High Court has held that the Australian Bureau of
Statistics can go ahead with the federal government's
Australia-wide same-sex marriage survey. It has dismissed the
challenge brought by two groups opposing the survey...
 MEDIA
Peter Luck dies
ABC News, 7 Sep 2017
Former pioneering ABC current affairs journalist and presenter
Peter Luck has died at the age of 73...
 CHILD PROTECTION
Child protection workers walk off
the job
ABC News, 6 Sep 2017
Tasmanian child protection
workers have called for more staff to enable them to reduce
unacceptable prioritising between vulnerable children...
THREATENED SPECIES
Tassie tiger really spotted this
time?
The Advocate, 6 Sep 2017
Footage that is claimed to be of a Tasmanian tiger within 50km
of Maydena in November last year was released to the media by
the tiger-hunting BRT Team this morning....
WATCH THE VIDEO, ABC News, 6 Sep 2017
Footage of claimed sighting released, ABC News, 6 Sep 2017
Claimed footage of Tasmanian tiger shown, Daily Telegraph, 6 Sep 2017
HEALTH
Six die during Tas aged care home
flu outbreak
Tas Govt media release, 1 Sep 2017
 The deaths of six aged care
residents at a Latrobe nursing home have coincided with an
influenza outbreak at the facility ...
Unwell people should stay away from schools, work and health
care and aged care facilities, Dr Mark Veitch, Director of
Public Health, 2 Sep 2017
FAMILY AND
STUDENT SAFETY
Family violence package released
Tas Govt media release, 1 Sep 2017
 The
Respectful Relationships Education Package, is
now available as part of the state government's Safe
Homes, Safe Families initiative,
education minister Jeremy Rockliff has announced...
Respectful Relationships
Education in Tas Govt Schools, DoE
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