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Adventures With Purpose diver joins search for missing Tasmanian man Nicola Sallese

Can "Diver Dan", affiliated with a YouTube channel that documents cases of missing people, help bring closure to the family of Nicola Sallese, a 69-year-old last seen in his car in regional Tasmania in 2008?

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Tasmania's Health Department says its ambulances were unregistered for a day, six years after a similar bungle

Ambulances drove around Tasmania unregistered on Thursday following an administrative bungle. It's not the first time that it's happened.

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Queensland records 11th flood death; Australia reports 48 Covid deaths – as it happened

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Vaccine caused Tas man's death: Coroner

A Tasmanian father of four died from adverse effects of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, a coroner has found.

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Tasmania's COVID mask rules change as they are ditched for retail settings

Tasmanians will be able to take off their masks in retail settings from tomorrow, Premier Peter Gutwein announces, with cafes and offices having to wait a little longer.

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Tas abuser told to pay victim's legal fees

A Tasmanian judge has ruled convicted child sex abuser John Wayne Millwood must pay his victim's legal costs over prolonged and unnecessary court proceedings.

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Masks off in Tas shops as virus rules ease

The Tasmanian premier has eased mask rules as the state records another 937 coronavirus cases.

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COVID-19 updates: Every state and territory's coronavirus numbers in one place

Looking for your jurisdiction's latest COVID-19 statistics? Here's where to find them.

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Fifth death reported in NSW; ‘it’s climate change,’ Palaszczuk says as Qld death toll rises to 10 – as it happened

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Tasmania records driest summer in 40 years as La Niña ‘swings the wind around’

Weather pattern slashes rainfall in Australia’s southernmost state while temperatures soar

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New Tas virus cases rise to four digits

Tasmania has reported 1117 new coronavirus cases and a rise in active numbers for the 16th day in a row.

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More than 100 Tasmanian devils killed on a 25km stretch of road in state's north-west

At least 114 Tasmanian devils have been killed in the last year on a rural road in Tasmania's north-west. Locals say their calls for action appear to be falling on deaf ears.

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Tasmania endures driest summer in 40 years, fourth driest since 1900

While thousands of people across Queensland and New South Wales are grappling with catastrophic floods, the country's smallest state has just endured its driest summer in four decades.

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Tasmanian prison food, kitchen practices in need of overhaul, Custodial Inspector finds

A report into prison food in Tasmania finds no-one engaged in preparing meals was trained in food hygiene, food allergies were scoffed at and religious considerations ignored — with a Muslim inmate fed ham salads.

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How Tasmania's major digital blackout was fixed, and how another could be avoided – an electrical engineer explains

Tasmanians yesterday suffered a six-hour digital blackout, with phone and internet services down across the state. Some radio and television broadcasts were also affected, as well as banking and electronic payment services.

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How Tasmanians coped with the network outage following Telstra cable damage

Tuesday's communications blackout across all of Tasmania caused by a "dial before you dig" blunder had wide-ranging effects: a house settlement delayed, businesses struggling to operate and one person even saying they would miss their uncle's funeral.

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'Largest-ever' cocaine bust in Tasmania

Tasmania Police say they have pulled off the largest cocaine seizure in the state's history after intercepting a truck that had returned from Victoria.

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Two charged amid 'one of the largest' cocaine busts in Tasmania, police say

Two men will face a Hobart court after about "10,000 street deals" of illicit drugs were found in the cabin of a truck that returned from Victoria.

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Tasmania's planned $750 million Hobart stadium divides opinion as state appeals for an AFL licence

Plans for a $750 million AFL stadium in Hobart divide opinion, with some seeing it as big step towards a Tasmanian team but others scoffing at the price amid a pandemic.

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Calls to rethink geotagging of social media posts depicting Tasmania's sensitive wilderness

More and more people are heading out into Tasmania's wild areas inspired by their Instagrammable aesthetics, prompting calls for bushwalkers to remove the geotagging before posting photos.

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Tasmania reports 868 new virus cases

Tasmania has reported 868 new COVID-19 infections, a dip on the number recorded 24 hours earlier, as it records a 15th successive day of rising active cases.

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Tasmania to build 10,000 affordable homes in 10 years but thousands of people sit on public housing waitlist

The Tasmanian government unveils an ambitious 10-year plan to build more homes. But with the state's housing crisis more acute than ever, some are worried it might still leave many without a home in the short term.

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NSW death toll rises to five; more ‘high impact’ storms forecast for Queensland – as it happened

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IPCC report: Australian coral, kelp, alpine and some forest ecosystems at risk of irreversible damage due to climate change

Some of Australia's iconic and unique natural ecosystems are headed for irreversible damage if we keep emitting carbon at current rates, climate experts warn. But they're not necessarily the ones you might expect.

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Tasmania's internet outage caused by damaged Telstra cables demonstrates the state's vulnerability

The vulnerabilities of Tasmania's links to the outside world have again been on show, with errant roadworks and construction sending the state into a communications blackout for hours — with yet another problem reported less than a day later.

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