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COVID AND SCHOOLS
Parents face uncertainty
TasLabor media release, 31 Dec 2021
 The government needs to assure parents schools will
be safe from COVID in Term 1 and advise them whether the term
will commence on time, Opposition education spokesperson Josh
Willie says.
Don't scare the parents, Sarah
Courtney, Minister for Education, 31 Dec 2021
YACHTING
Ichi Ban in lead after appeal
ABC
News, 31 Dec 2021
 Ichi Ban is now leading on
handicap in the Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race following its
successful appeal arising from Celestial's non-response to radio
calls.
Line honours went to Black Jack.
UPDATE 11.05am: Ichi Ban has been declared the handicap
winner, ABC News, 31 Dec 2021
UPDATE:
Celestial protests over successful protest, ABC News, 1 Jan
2022
CORONAVIRUS
Tas COVID cases taking off
ABC
News, 30 Dec 2021
 The number of daily
COVID-19 cases in Tasmania has risen from the 55 announced
yesterday to 92 today.
UPDATE 31 Dec 2021: The number of new daily cases has risen
from 92 to 137.
CORONAVIRUS
COVID numbers skyrocket
ABC
News, 29 Dec 2021
The number of
Coronavirus cases in NSW has almost doubled in one day, rising
from 6,062 to the 11,201 cases announced today.
Tasmania's rise of 55 cases is a new record, ABC News, 29
Jan 2021
WORLD LEADERS
Tutu dies
ABC
News, 26 Dec 2021
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, campaigner against
white minority rule in apartheid South Africa and Nobel Peace
Prize winner, has died at the age of 90.
CORONAVIRUS
Booster sooner
Tas
Govt media release, 24 Dec 2021
 The waiting period
for COVID-19 booster injections will be reduced in two stages:
 from five months to four months from Tue 4 Jan 2022,
then
from four months to three months from Mon 31
Jan 2022.
CORONAVIRUS
Masks to be worn from Tuesday
ABC
News, 19 Dec 2021
 Tasmanians aged 12 and over
are required to wear masks from Tuesday this week (21 Dec)
unless they are in their home, in another person's home or
outside (but masks are still required at certain large
outside events).
Masks to be worn in offices, schools, shops, public
transport and more, Dept of Health, 19
Dec 2021
HILLCREST PRIMARY SCHOOL
Sixth child dies
ABC News, 19 Dec 2021
 An 11-year-old boy
has become the sixth Hillcrest Primary School student to die
in the jumping castle tragedy.
Prime Minister announces special funding on visit to
Hillcrest Primary, ABC News, 18 Dec
2021.
A devastating event, Rebecca
White, State Opposition leader, 16 Dec 2021
Overwhelming sadness, Cassy
O'Connor, Greens Leader, 16 Dec 2021
TASMANIAN SCHOOLS
Five students die in Hillcrest PS incident
ABC News, 16 Dec 2021
Five grade 5 and 6 children died
after a jumping castle was blown into the air at
Hillcrest Primary School, Devonport, this morning.
Some students are
in a critical condition.
The children fell from a height of about
10 metres.
Students' names
released,
ABC News,17 Dec 2021
Jumping castles now banned, ABC News, 16 Dec 2021
SPORT
Tassie secures Ashes Test
ABC News, 10 Dec 2021
 For the first time ever, a
cricket Ashes Test is to be played in Hobart, unconfirmed
reports say.
Bellerive confirmed, ABC News,
11 Dec 2021
TASMANIAN PEOPLE
Peter Cundall dies
ABC News, 5 Dec 2021
Peter Cundall, the beloved Tasmanian who
became Australia's best-known gardening guru, has died at
the age of 94.
CORONAVIRUS
Vaccine for 5-11 yo's
ABC News, 5 Dec 2021
Children aged 5 to 11 years
look set to become eligible to receive the Pfizer vaccine
from 10 January next year.
Aim is for Tas kids to return to school on Wed 9 Feb
with at least one dose, Peter Gutwein,
Premier, 5 Dec 2021
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