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Tasmania's south-west is a place people fall in love with, but how should tourism be managed in the remote wilderness?

People come to Tasmania's remote south-west for different reasons, but as the state government continues to encourage tourism development in national parks, is the right balance being struck between development and conservation?

ABC News · Mar 5, 2022

JackJumpers win ugly over Breakers in NBL

It wasn't pretty but Tasmania JackJumpers found a way to defeat New Zealand Breakers and win their first home game in Launceston.

AAP · Mar 5, 2022

Balta shines up front in Richmond AFL win

Richmond have recorded a 25-point AFL pre-season win over Hawthorn in Tasmania, with Noah Balta and Jack Riewoldt booting three goals each.

AAP · Mar 5, 2022

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$1.4m to be released to Hillcrest families

Families affected by the Hillcrest jumping castle tragedy in Tasmania will soon receive more than $1.4 million in donations, after a legal hurdle was overcome.

AAP · Mar 5, 2022

‘He literally had 30 seconds’: an Australian couple’s desperate fight to flee Ukraine

Tasmanians Rachel Lehmann Ware and her husband Duncan detail their journey from the basement of a school in Kyiv to an 18-hour train ride

The Guardian - AU · Mar 4, 2022

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?

ABC News · Mar 4, 2022

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.

ABC News · Mar 4, 2022

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

Queensland announces financial support of $558.5m for flood-hit communities as insurance claims estimated to hit $1bn. This blog is now closed

The Guardian - AU · Mar 4, 2022

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.

AAP · Mar 4, 2022

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.

ABC News · Mar 4, 2022

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.

AAP · Mar 4, 2022

Masks off in Tas shops as virus rules ease

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

AAP · Mar 3, 2022

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.

ABC News · Mar 3, 2022

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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The Guardian - AU · Mar 3, 2022

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The Guardian - AU · Mar 3, 2022

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

AAP · Mar 2, 2022

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.

ABC News · Mar 2, 2022

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.

ABC News · Mar 2, 2022

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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ABC News · Mar 2, 2022

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.

The Conversation · Mar 2, 2022

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.

ABC News · Mar 2, 2022

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.

AAP · Mar 2, 2022

'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.

ABC News · Mar 2, 2022

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.

ABC News · Mar 2, 2022

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.

ABC News · Mar 2, 2022

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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