Tasmania, Australia News

Today the Country Hour takes you to the 'red meat update' which is underway in Launceston.

TASMANIAN councils are eligible for $3.38 million in federal government funding for community infrastructure projects out of a $150 thmillion pool announced yesterday.

Dark MOFO's Skywhale hot air balloon is set to take to Hobart's skies for the first time this morning.

Greatland Gold, the AIM-listed mineral exploration and development company based in Australia has unveiled positive results of drilling activities at the Warrentinna gold project in Tasmania, Australia.

UP FOR A FIGHT: Deputy Premier Bryan Green says that he will definitely stand again next year and denied the state government was doomed.

The state secretary of the Australian Labor Party has moved to clarify media reports putting a focus on changing of parliamentary numbers in the House of Assembly.

Braddon Labor MP Brenton Best said the group was going to lobby Simplot and the state government to join them in the discussions.

The Tasmanian branch of the animal welfare charity launched a social media campaign this week to encourage members of the public to lobby Attorney-General Brian Wightman to introduce tougher penalties for people who abuse or mistreat animals.

CONTRIBUTION RECOGNISED: National Judo Volunteer of the Year Chris Palmer received his award in Wollongong last weekend.

Tasmania may have been the first state in Australia to receive NBN services but customers there have a limited choice of service providers, thanks to the cost of getting data traffic across Bass Strait.

On the evening of the last full day of our trip to Tasmania we visited Cataract Gorge and First Basin,Launceston .

Australia native Leanne Rowe has witnessed her thick Australian accent turn to a French one while recovering from a car accident eight years ago.

REPEAT heart attacks are expected to dramatically increase in Australia by 2020, according to evidence released at an expert Melbourne symposium at the weekend.

A Senate inquiry has heard extraordinary allegations that Tasmanian forestry contractors who were paid by the Government to leave the industry are using a legal loophole to continue work.

W. E. Cotching A C , G. Oliver B , M. Downie B , R. Corkrey B and R. B. Doyle B A Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture/School of Agricultural Science, University of Tasmania, PO Box 3523, Burnie, Tas.

Australia Post is honouring Australia's oldest Government Houses in a new stamp issue released to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Government House in Perth.

The ReachTEL poll in The Mercury newspaper showed Labor's first preference vote in Braddon was just 17.4 per cent.

Mary Meets Mohammad is a documentary that shows the relationship between an Afghan asylum seeker and a devout Christian pensioner.

Does hosting a travel show, doing all the fun things like shucking oysters and taking in great scenery count as work? Don't give me that look... LOOKING up at the purposely-left-unfinished ceilings of my service apartment in Hobart, Tasmania as I sit back on the sofa with some sort of Australian ball sport on TV where large men run into other large ... (more)

BURNIE City Mayor Steve Kons and Deputy Mayor Sandra French believe Burnie is leading the way for Tasmania's cruise-ship tourism industry.