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Tassie News from the ABC

• Banjo's founder denies fraud, bribery accusations
  The founder of the Banjo's Bakery chain has denied bribing staff to lie to the Tax Office.
• Vics enter final on back of big win
  Victoria will play host to next week's Sheffield Shield final after crushing Tasmania in their last-round game at the MCG on Friday.Queensland's defeat to Western Australia at the Gabba guaranteed the Bulls would travel to Melbourne for the season decider, starting on Wednesday.
• Knives out over election spending claims
  The Tasmanian Treasurer has accused the Greens of proposing risky economic policies and the Liberals of big spending.
• Cattle cruelty farmer seeks new hearing
  A Tasmanian court has been told that evidence used to convict a former Tasmanian dairy farmer was shabby, flawed and amateurish.
• Antarctica once had tropical climate, scientists say
  An international team of scientists who have arrived back in Hobart from Antarctica say they have evidence the icy continent once had a tropical climate.
• Onus on shipbuilders in downturn
  Australia's Export Finance and Insurance Corporation says it will support Australian shipbuilders during an industry downturn, if builders find credit-worthy clients.
• Libs detail disability funding
  The State Opposition is promising to deliver millions of dollars to Tasmania's disability services and to those who access them.
• Court told nothing wrong with till dipping
  The tax fraud trial of Banjo's bakery founder Mark Saxby has heard there was nothing wrong with Saxby taking money from the till.
• Bushrangers close in on huge win
  Victoria was dismissed for 382 on the third morning of its Sheffield Shield clash at the MCG before ripping through Tasmania's second innings.
• Saxby takes stand in fraud trial
  The founder of the Banjo's bakery chain will take the witness stand in his tax fraud trial in Hobart today.