Open URL in new Safari tab with AppleScript

Question

Is it possible to use AppleScript to open a link in a new tab in Safari?

Answer 1

I can't comment :-/ so I will answer to say that Tim's answer (above) works as of OS X 10.8.5. This one-line version of his script also works:

tell window 1 of application "Safari" to set current tab to (make new tab with properties {URL:"http://www.stackoverflow.com"})

Arrgh -- the one line is overflowing. Here it is without the code tags:

tell window 1 of application "Safari" to set current tab to (make new tab with properties {URL:"http://www.stackoverflow.com"})