Sarah Courtney,Minister for Small Business, Hospitality and Events
Tasmania is recognised nationally and internationally for delivering a range of events, reinforcing our strong brand and providing significant economic and social benefits to our State.
Today, I am pleased to confirm the Australian Rowing Championships will take place in Tasmania from 22 – 28 March 2021, putting Lake Barrington in the national rowing spotlight.
This is great news for Tasmanians as we safely welcome the event back to the State in a COVID-safe way, more than a decade after the previous Nationals event held here in 2009.
Event organisers have been working closely with the Tasmanian Government and Public Health on a COVID-safe event plan, which has now been approved by the Tasmanian Department of Health.
Tasmania developing a digital health strategy for public health system Written by Kate McDonald on
28 January 2021.
The Tasmanian Department of Health has issued a tender for a partner to help it develop a digital health strategy for the state, aiming to articulate the outcomes and benefits of digital transformation for the health sector and determine the investments that will be required.
The tender involves the development of the strategy, writing a business case, outlining a digital health technology target state and governance target state, along with bids for funding over a 10-year period and developing requests for tender for future digital health solutions.
Sydney to Hobart yacht race in jeopardy due to COVID cluster The northern beaches coronavirus cluster has put the Sydney to Hobart yacht race in serious jeopardy. Can it still go ahead?
Sport by Amanda Lulham
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Subscriber only Sydney to Hobart sailors are fearing the worse in the wake of Tasmania implementing a ban on travellers from the northern beaches coronavirus hot spot. The famous race appears in serious jeopardy following the outbreak of coronavirus on the northern beaches which on Friday blew out to 28 cases. More than 100 sailors in the Sydney to Hobart are believed to live in the area with many more working on the northern beaches.
Australia’s Test series with India is expected to continue at the SCG as planned on 7 January. Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images
Cricket Australia is upbeat its biosecurity protocols will ensure the Test series can be completed in Brisbane as planned, even if Queensland opts to shut its border to Sydney.
But there are doubts over the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, with organisers holding crisis talks on Friday with the 2020 yacht race in doubt due to the Covid-19 outbreak on Sydney’s northern beaches.
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