Tasmania's Heroes

I found Johnny Greening, Collingwood's 19-year-old prodigy in the 1970 grand final, through the Cooee Football Club in northern Tasmania. Cooee is a thin slip of sand on Burnie's western side. Its football team doesn't exist any more, but its former great, Harold "Tiger" Dowling, cer

Driving Charges

A SYDNEY woman was committed at Maitland Local Court yesterday to stand trial on a charge of negligent driving causing death. Charlein Iris Howe, 57, of Burnie St, Blacktown, is charged with driving negligently on December 28 last year at Belford near Singleton, causing the death of Sandra Chiper

And The Lord Sayeth, 'are You Mad?'

WHAT'S going on with mayors? First this guy in Coffs Harbour is agreeing with white supremacist loonies, and now the Mayor of Burnie, Tasmania, has resigned in a story which involves messages from God, jogging around a building seven times because of biblical significance, and a plan for a Christian