http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/vince-taskunas/ Vince Taskunas was appointed to the role of General Manager, Public Policy and Communications at the Royal Automobile Club of Tasmania Ltd in January 2008. He is the Club’s representative on the national public policy committee of the Australian Automobile Association, which collectively represents over 6 million motorists. Vince is also responsible for the RACT’s government relations and works on several Tasmanian Government stakeholder reference groups including the Tasmanian Road Safety Council. Vince acts as the Club’s public spokesman on a number of road safety and infrastructure issues, and is a regular contributor to the RACT’s member magazine Motor News Journeys. Prior to the RACT, Vince worked as a media and political adviser to three Tasmanian Federal Senators in Canberra and Hobart for eight years, and in a family business in Tasmania for four years before that. Vince graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in political science and English. He particularly liked studying nineteenth-century political thinkers like Kant, Fichte and Hegel; Elizabethan and Jacobean drama; and Theatre of the Absurd. He is a member of the Public Relations Institute of Australia and is the associate editor of Lithuanian Papers, an annual journal of Baltic issues produced at the University of Tasmania. Vince loves singing, playing guitar, listening to all styles of music, watching the Wallabies and Essendon Football Club, fishing, elections and political systems, the theatre, digital photography, cooking at home, appreciating good Tasmanian wine, and time with his family. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:40 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/turbines-bringing-a-storm-to-tasmania/ A plan to generate renewable energy by building wind power turbines on the top of a Hobart office block has been rejected by local planning authority the Hobart City Council. The news has spawned a fusillade of responses, both critical and supportive, from a strange brew of sources. As the ABC’s Tony Eastley put it in his report on AM, “Tasmania prides itself on being clean and green, but controversy is never too far away.” feedback@thepunch.com.au (Vince Taskunas) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/turbines-bringing-a-storm-to-tasmania/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/turbines-bringing-a-storm-to-tasmania/#item823 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:30:37 +0000 Vince Taskunas | Author bios | The Punch