Apple Isle

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Apple Isle

(Placename) the Apple Isle informal Austral Tasmania

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Orlando, FL, April 11, 2015 --(PR.com)-- Classic Holidays, Australasia's leading Resort and Club Management Company, is leaping to Australia's 'Apple Isle' with the appointment of Management Rights for the Shearwater Country Club in Tasmania.

Classic Holidays Takes on Tasmanian Country Club

The Apple Isle is nowhere to be found once again on the uniform of the Australian athletes competing at the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Tasmania Gets Snubbed Again; Island Missing in Australia's Uniform at Glasgow 2014

Can the Apple Isle supply the bulk of Australia's future food needs?

Teasing out the facts

The first Test starts in Brisbane on November 25 and England's quicks will be spending more time up in the Sunshine State than they will in the Apple Isle. (ANI)

Ashes: England sends frontline bowling attack to Brisbane to acclimatize

AS OUR brave lads and girls sacrifice their lives and limbs in foreign domains to protect the outer skin of our "Apple Isle", the core is becoming poisoned with murders, burglaries, GBH and anti- social behaviour, despite the manipulated crime figures of consecutive ruling parties, and the perpetrators, if ever caught and charged, have no fear of the judicial system which is, rightly, continually ridiculed.