Tasmania, Australia News

Premier Lara Giddings presented the budget at The Point, in Burnie, explaining the Labor government's decisions and commented on how "balanced" this year's budget was.

Launceston resident Jenny McCabe with the cat that she had hoped might have been her missing pet Buddy.

Senator Helen Polley, Bass Labor MHR Geoff Lyons and Launceston Mayor Albert van Zetten at Kings Bridge, which has received federal government black spot funding.

From humble beginnings to the cosmopolitan city that it is today, Hobart, the capital of Tasmania, is rightfully dubbed 'a historic city reinventing itself' by Lonely Planet.

The rally has been organised by the Australian Workers Union, the West Coast Council and the Tullah Progress Association as environmentalists continue their campaign to challenge Environment Minister Tony Burke's approval of the Shree Minerals development at Temma.

IN a few years, the Festival of Voices has evolved from a modest gathering of choirs into one of Tasmania's biggest winter attractions.

I got a review here by "Super Christian Porn" who caught MAN OF STEEL 3 weeks early in Queenstown, Australia.

All Australians can now recycle their unwanted e-waste for free, with a National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme available in every state and territory, the government announced in a statement Friday.

Christchurch hotels are heading for the winter doldrums as tourism bosses warn skiers may bypass the city and head straight for Queenstown.

EVEN on a day when the AFL's highest profile player was embroiled in a late-night scandal it was a former Launceston schoolboy that dominated the headlines.

FORMER owner of Fairford, Burnie's Ken Murray, says the announcement Australia's Ford factories would close in a few years was "very sad". Ford Australia yesterday announced operations at the Geelong engine factory and the Broadmeadows assembly line would cease in October 2016.

FACTORY VISIT: Australian Weaving Mills staff member Dorothy Thompson shows Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, Liberal candidate for Braddon Brett Whiteley and opposition Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey through some of the processes at the Devonport factory yesterday.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Signing a resource-sharing agreement yesterday are Circular Head Mayor Daryl Quilliam, Burnie Mayor Steve Kons and Waratah-Wynyard Mayor Robby Walsh.

Mr Abbott says the state's Labor-Green government is too focused on a scare campaign over GST funds while its economy suffers.

AT least one sector of the Tasmanian economy is booming as new aged care homes and retirement villages are built and existing ones extended to cater for the ageing population.

HOME EXTENDED: Soroptimist Devonport members Wendy Clarke, of Wesley Vale, with Frances Parsons and Desley Blanch, both of Devonport, at the extension's opening.

FORMER Ulverstone soccer player Jeremy Walker is on the verge of playing at this year's FIFA Under-20 World Cup.

One of the bonuses of buying a harness racing yearling at the Tasmanian Premier sale is the prospects of competing for top prizemoney in races restricted to only graduates of the sale.

HE may be better known as Baldrick, the character with "a cunning plan" on Blackadder, but Tony Robinson has a plan to share Townsville's unique history with the world.

TASMANIA's log grading system will be reviewed in the wake of a sawmilling trial which used logs destined to be sent to China for woodchips.