Two dead, 16 rescued as yacht capsizes Oct 10, 2009
Wreckage of the maxi yacht Shockwave is washed against the rocks at Flinders Island off Port Kembla. Photo: Illawarra Mercury. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Artists vie for Uncle Sam's eye Sep 10, 2009
His images show Aborigines hunting birds on Flinders Island, off Tasmania's north-east coast, and healing groves of trees that are significant to his people. Christopher Pease, a young artist from the south-west of Western Australia, uses early colonial imagery of the arrival of white men to comment on the dislocation of Aboriginal society. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Swell time to tuck into iconic Tassie scallops May 31, 2009
The fishing grounds have been closed since December 2005 to allow stocks to replenish but harvesting will be limited to a 75 square nautical mile radius about 40 kilometres north-east of Flinders Island. Federal Fisheries Minister Tony Burke said the reopening of the fishery would support about 100 jobs on fishing boats and about 200 seasonal jobs in processing factories in Tasmania and Melbourne. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Records smashed Feb 10, 2009
In the first stage of the heatwave in January, record temperatures were set in Tasmania, when Flinders Island Airport recorded 41. 5 degrees. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
