Tasmania, Australia News

Lawyers for the Beaconsfield Gold Mine have condemned union claims of safety breaches as scandalous, before dramatically withdrawing from most of the inquest into a miner's death.

Todd Russell and Brant Webb hope the final chapter is now being written in the story of their miraculous survival at the Beaconsfield gold mine.

Brant Webb and Todd Russell. Photo: James Davies Andrew Darby July 24, 2008 - 2:21PM Goldminer Brant Webb probably survived the Beaconsfield rockfall on the toss of a coin, he revealed to the inquest into the ...

SIX personnel of the Division of Marine Law are off to Australia to be trained on how to work on the patrol boat.

LAWYERS for the Beaconsfield Gold Mine have condemned union claims of safety breaches as scandalous, before dramatically withdrawing from most of the inquest into a miner's death.

Scat-detector dogs have been used to sniff out evidence of foxes in Tasmania. Map: Longford 7301 There has been more evidence of foxes in Tasmania with five more fox scats identified.

How's THAT for a title? Yes, Rodney Scott McLagan of Hobart, Australia, hereinafter and for the rest of his natural life at the very least known as Octopus Sex Man , has been released from custody with a $1500 ...

The State Opposition wants an elector poll on the fate of the Portside Building.

Michael C. Breadmore * and Joselito P. Quirino Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science, School of Chemistry, University of Tasmania, G.P.O. Box 252-75, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia Received for ...

The Minister for Infrastructure, Graeme Sturges, today visited the Devonport terminal and inspected Spirit of Tasmania I, and congratulated TT-Line and its staff for providing passengers with an environmentally ...

Rare theriantropes , felines, and a San figure with a decorated animal skin blanket march across the walls of Lower Mushroom Shelter.

Canberra, July 12: A scientist has suggested that reducing green house emissions is better than trying to sink them into the sea using ocean fertilization.

New Zealand developer Dave Henderson says the receivership of his Five Mile Holdings project in Queenstown is symptomatic of the "mess" the finance industry is in.

The Premier David Bartlett today announced the Chief Executive Officers who will implement the Government's post year 10 reforms.

A coroner has ruled that an inquest is required into the death of Beaconsfield miner Larry Knight.

A 24-year-old Queenstown man was arrested yesterday afternoon and charged with dangerous driving causing death and two charges of driving causing injury following the death of a woman in Dunedin Hospital on ...

Tasmania's first Online Access Centre is celebrating ten years of operation. Speaking at the Devonport Online Access Centre's tenth birthday celebrations today, Premier and Minister for Education and Skills, ...

A short resume of an intrepid circumnavigation of the great north island. 30th.April Departed Hobart called on Gordon and Pam and then on to Westbury for a pleasant overnight stay at Andy's Bakery.

Tasmania will host a round of the Australian Rally Championship in October. The Tarmac Challenge will be based out of Burnie in the north-west. Melbourne pulled out the championships because of financial ...

TASMANIANS charged with online child-exploitation offences are usually white-collar men with good jobs who are held in high esteem by society, police say.