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Tasmania s AFL ultimatum is the right move, but it places the entire sport in Tasmania at risk
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FebFebruary 2021 at 12:02am
Severing ties with North Melbourne and Hawthorn would mean a $30 million hole in the winter tourism economy.
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Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein believes his ultimatum to the AFL presents Tasmanians with the ultimate win-win and he s probably right.
Either the AFL gives Tasmania a date for entry to the league, or the State Government cuts funding to Hawthorn and North Melbourne, leaving multi-million-dollar holes in their balance sheets.
It s a threat from the pen of a Premier in charge of a state that no longer has anything to lose, and a scenario the AFL surely doesn t want to see happen.
Sunday, 10 January 2021, 6:09 am
The
Open shearing final lineup at the Peninsula Duvauchelle
Shears on Saturday. Photo /
Supplied
National 2019-2020 No
1-ranked Open shearer and New Zealand transtasman shearing
series team member Troy Pyper got his second win of the
current season in a close result at the Peninsula
Duvauchelle Shears yesterday(Saturday).
From
Southland, now based in North Canterbury and just back from
shearing in Hawke’s Bay, he won the the title at the
Duvauchelle A and P Show for a third time in a
row.
But there was just a 0.43 points margin from
runner-up Ant Frew, of Pleasant Point, in a 10-sheep Open