Tasmania, Australia News

A couple who gave away their son for adoption as a newborn because of the shame of having a child out of wedlock were reunited with him for Christmas -- ending 57 years of pain.

Tenders have been called for the construction of an autism centre in Burnie on Tasmania's north-west coast.

Premier David Bartlett today unveiled infrastructure projects for the North-West and West Coasts worth almost $6.7 million to provide a direct and immediate economic boost to the region.

The early effects of fire and grazing on bryophytes and lichens in tussock grassland and hummock sedgeland in north-eastern Tasmania Anneka V. Ferguson A , Emma J. Pharo A , B , Jamie B. Kirkpatrick A and Jon B. Marsden-Smedley A A School of Geography and Environmental Studies, Private Bag 78, Hobart, Tas.

"There's just water in the esky, only water," TEER scientific and technical officer, Mike Attard says.

By Pauline Askin Hobart, Australia - An international conservation society is using a small, space-age-like vessel to scare off whaling fleets from Antarctic waters, with a ghostly tune as its main weapon.

AN ATM has been blown up in Tasmania and police believe it is the work of unsuccessful robbers.

Another boat of asylum seekers has been intercepted off the coast of WA, as Amnesty International raises serious concerns about overcrowding and the treatment of children in immigration detention on Christmas Island.

Tasmania, separated from the Australian mainland by the Bass Straits, is the most mountainous state in Australia.

The Tasman Sea had thrown, thrashed, and rattled them for eight long days. There was nothing on the horizon but heaving swells of wind-strewn ocean.

The industry says wood chips are piling up as companies face pressure to find reliable markets.

'Respectful and professional': a spokesman says the PM has robust discussions with his staff Map: Launceston 7250 Government officials say they have no record of an incident involving Prime Minister Kevin Rudd verbally abusing his staff in the presence of a ComCar driver.

Paddy Pearl, the widow of celebrated writer and journalist Cyril Pearl, has sold one of Tasmania's oldest homes and donated the sale proceeds to medical research.

Tour operators are criticising the Government for what they believe is a short-sighted approach to GST.

Tasmanian's Top Designers are currently on display at the Design Centre of Tasmania in Launceston.

Macquarie Island is Australia's southernmost point, a tiny spit of an island some 940 miles southeast of Tasmania.

Tasmanian salmon company Huon Aquaculture is to offer new jobs for northern Tasmania, a region that has recently learnt it will lose 2 manufacturing plants and hundreds of jobs.

AN antiques roadshow through Tasmania has unearthed a painting by the great Australian artist Arthur Streeton.

The Tasmanian and Federal governments have committed $20 million for an innovation and investment fund, in the wake of PaperlinX decision to pulp its Tasmanian paper businesses.

The union representing 250 Tasmanian paper workers set to lose their jobs is demanding that state and federal governments "guarantee" entitlements and provide financial assistance for retraining.