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The Latest Breaking News from Tasmania

Bushfires stretch along east coast as Sydney and Hunter region warned of extreme fire danger

Dozens of blazes in NSW, Queensland and Tasmania as extreme heatwave moves north

The Guardian - AU

Indigenous group condemns Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s ‘denial of history’ – as it happened

All the day’s news as it unfolded

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Campers flee tourist hotspot as bushfire sparks alerts

A warning urging people to seek shelter has been issued as a bushfire burns out of control on Tasmania's east coast near the popular Freycinet Peninsula.

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Evangelical church minister admits to child sex abuse

An evangelical church minister who was extradited to Victoria from Tasmania to face child sex abuse charges has admitted to two historic offences.

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New Species Of Venomous Spider Named After ‘Venom’ Star Tom Hardy

Venomius tomhardyi was discovered in Tasmania, Australia.

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HG Wells, Hitler and Tasmania’s dark past: the stories behind arrival cards in Australia’s National Archives

Archive material captures arrival in Australia of celebrities including Princess Anne, Fred Astaire and four-year-old Russell Crowe, as well as The War of the Worlds author’s explosive 1938-39 visit

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Polls suggest Australia Indigenous Voice referendum will fail

Latest polls suggest the only state that backs the proposal to create Indigenous advisory body is Tasmania.

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Controversial new Tasmanian AFL stadium could add $226m a year to economy, report finds

But a parliamentary committee says there has been no evidence to bolster the key assumptions underpinning the business case

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Australia rescues sick researcher from remote outpost in Antarctica

The researcher has been evacuated and is on a ship headed for Tasmania for treatment

Evening Standard

Covid cycling boom has ended with just one-third of Australians riding in 2023

The Guardian - AU

Australia records warmest winter caused by global heating and sunny conditions

NSW, Queensland and Tasmania experienced hottest winters with spring likely to deliver hotter than average temperatures too

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The massacre of Tasmania’s forests could be stopped at any time. Where are Australia’s leaders?

The tallest flowering trees on Earth reduced to stumps and a fernery maybe millions of years old razed to the ground – and this butchery is condoned

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Unesco removes ‘hurtful’ document claiming Tasmanian Aboriginal people ‘extinct’

Inaccurate statement by the International Union for Conservation of Nature made as part of the 1982 process for world heritage status for Tasmanian wilderness area

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Australia’s $528m Antarctic icebreaker wider than initially designed as bridge impasse labelled ‘farcical’

Tasmania’s harbour master says RSV Nuyina’s dimensions significantly changed from original design and ‘windage area’ now too large

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Voice referendum date to be revealed in Adelaide as South Australia emerges as swing state

Guardian Australia analysis shows yes and no campaign advertising is focused more on SA, Tasmania and WA, and less on east coast states

The Conversation

Disease in the dirt: how mange-causing mites decimated a Tasmanian wombat population

More than 80% of Australian mammals are found nowhere else in the world. Many of these unique, iconic creatures are under threat.

The Conversation

Giant old trees are still being logged in Tasmanian forests. We must find ways of better protecting them

The photo said it all. On the back of a logging truck, a tree so large it could barely fit. It was cut down in Tasmania’s Florentine Valley, not far from Mount Field, where it had started life as a seedling over a century ago.

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Tasmanian scene puts Canberra artist in finals of Gosford Art Prize

The work shows a bend in the beautiful Derwent River.

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Morning Mail: All eyes on the Matildas, more scrutiny over consultants, anger as centuries-old tree felled in Tasmania

Australians hold their breath ahead of the World Cup semi-final; PwC in new disclosure revelations; PM urged to witness impacts of native logging

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‘National disgrace’: protest after tree estimated to be hundreds of years old cut down in Tasmania

Sustainable Timber Tasmania said the giant tree pictured on the truck had been assessed and felled ‘for safety reasons’

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Tasmanian church offers a conversion dream – with one eerie catch

The new owner of St Mary the Virgin, near Gretna, must tend to the adjoining graveyard, overseeing new burials and 400 graves

The Conversation

Rising seas and a great southern star: Aboriginal oral traditions stretch back more than 12,000 years

Content note: this article mentions genocide and acts of colonial violence against Aboriginal people.

The Guardian - AU

Future uncertain for key Tasmania to mainland power transmission link after $2bn cost blowout

Federal government in discussion with states after Marinus Link price tag increases, putting decarbonisation and energy goals at risk

Inverse

Scientists Just Scanned the Brain of an Animal That’s Been Extinct for 87 Years

Using a 140-year-old piece of brain tissue, we may know more about the Tasmanian tiger’s brain than before.

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Sydney records hottest July as unseasonably warm weather set to persist across most of Australia

July records broken over the weekend in parts of NSW and Victoria as ‘almost the entire country’ 2-6C above average temperatures

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