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The Clio Awards for Best Television Commercials

John Farrier — Fri, 28 May 2010 18:36:45 +0000

The Clio Awards are given annually by the advertising industry for the best examples of advertising. One of the categories is for television, cinema, and digital works. The grand prize winner in that category was this commercial for Boag’s Draught, a beer brewed in Tasmania. It was created by the firm of Publicis Mojo in Sydney. The link will take you to videos for the other winners in the same category.

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Newly-Discovered “City of Gonads” Jellyfish Wears a Crown of, Um….

John Farrier — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:50:04 +0000

Scientists have named a previously undiscovered type of jellyfish found in a Tasmanian river. The Csiromedusa medeopolis (Greek for “city of gonads”) wears its sex organs like a crown on top of its body. It’s quite different from any other jellyfish ever cataloged:

Launceston jellyfish expert Lisa-Ann Gershwin says it is an astounding discovery.

“It’s absolutely different from every other jellyfish that’s ever been known,” Dr Gershwin said.

“So we not only put it into its own new species and its own new genus, but it’s actually a brand new family.”

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Crop Circles Made by Stoned Wallabies

Alex — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:22:11 +0000

Forget aliens, the real culprits behind mysterious crop circles in Tasmania are far weirder: stoned wallabies!

"The one interesting bit that I found recently in one of my briefs on the poppy industry was that we have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," Lara Giddings told the hearing.

"Then they crash," she added. "We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."

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Wombat Poo Paper

Alex — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:33:11 +0000

Those wily Tasmanians have hit upon a gem of an idea that lets them:

a) get rid of stuff no one wanted (i.e. wombat poo)
b) make lots of money doing it (make it into paper)
c) from people they don’t like (tourists)

Creative Paper manager Darren Simpson says the manufacturing process can be rather unpleasant.

"When we are boiling it, it does smell horrific as you can imagine, but once it has been sterilised and rinsed properly there’s no scent left to it. If anything it just gives you a nice organic smell," he said.

He added that it was the tourists themselves who came up with the wombat idea.

"As people were coming through and we were showing them the samples of our paper, they would throw questions at you like ‘can you make it from sheep poo or can you make it from koalas?’. And the one that kept popping up more than any other was the wombat."

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Previously on Neatorama: Tiny Flower Turns Pig Poop into Fuel, Elephant Dung Paper