Gillard visits Tasmania as bushfires burn
ABCPrime Minister Julia Gillard hailed "great mateship at a difficult time" during a visit to bushfire-hit Tasmania today, as a makeshift flotilla ferried supplies into the cut-off Tasman Peninsula. "I've come to Tasmania today for one purpose, and that's to say to the people of Tasmania that the nation is standing with them at this very, very difficult time," she said. Today rising temperatures and strengthening winds prompted the Tasmanian Fire Service to issue new warnings for people at Dodges Ferry and White Beach, in the state's south-east. "What we're asking people to do is for those people who are around the Dodges Ferry Fire Station and north of the Dodges Ferry Fire Station through to the junction at Forcett with the Arthur Highway, all those people to remain alert," he said.
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