Alp's 'burnie Bedouin' Target Of Travel Rorts Claim

Canberra The Federal Government yesterday turned the focus of the travel rorts affair on to the Opposition, accusing the ALP frontbencher Senator Nick Sherry of overclaiming his travel allowance. The Treasurer, Mr Peter Costello, dubbed the Tasmanian senator the "Bedouin of Burnie" f

Wilson And Anderson Break Burnie Records

Darren Wilson and Kate Anderson took advantage of benign conditions to smash the men's and women's race records at the annual 10-kilometre road race in Burnie yesterday. For 13 years the port town on Tasmania's Bass Strait coast has staged one of the best races in the country, won by the likes o