Tasmania, Australia Travel News

You may probably have already picked up brochures at the airport or visited the visitors centre in Maquarie St in town.

SEVERAL counterfeit $50 notes have been circulating in Launceston, Tasmania Police warn.

Third time lucky....the Ady Gil needs clearance to pass through New Zealand waters.

The State Government has allocated an additional $3.72 million to special schools in Tasmania over the next four years, Premier and Minister for Education and Skills, David Bartlett, said today.

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

Art Major, whose first Australian crop rewrote the record books in 2008/09, is the headline act among the 20 stallions represented at the Tasmania Premier Yearling Sale, to be held at Inveresk Showground, Launceston on Saturday, January 16.

The Minister for Economic Development, Michael Aird, today confirmed that the $20 million North West and Northern Tasmania assistance package announced by the Premier and Senator Carr on Tuesday would be available to provide support to eligible West Coast businesses.

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

The Australian and Tasmanian Governments will deliver long term, sustainable employment with a $20 million package to stimulate innovation, investment and jobs in North West and Northern Tasmania.

The Minister for Tourism and the Arts, Michelle O'Byrne, today said the announcement by QantasLink that it was increasing its services and capacity into Northern Tasmania was a major sign of continuing confidence in Tasmania's tourism sector.

The two ferries carried an extra 5,000 passengers. Tasmania's TT-Line says it is adapting well in difficult times.

When convicts were shipped from England to Australia to serve a sentence of eternal banishment and estrangement, the worst of the offenders, went to Tasmania a ' an island of the island continent, thus twice isolated.

North West burns patients now have a new high-tech way to access the ongoing care and treatment they need for a speedier recovery without the necessity of long distance travel to Hobart.

I was privileged to deliver the keynote at the Libraries Australia 2009 Forum in Hobart, Tasmania then the keynote at the Museum, Library and Archive Forum sponsored by Keio University in Tokyo, Japan.

Health Minister Lara Giddings today welcomed a new fundraising initiative by the Ponting Foundation to benefit Tasmanian children with cancer.

STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 8pm 26/11/09 - Tasmania : The Digital Future Premier David Bartlett has announced the State Government will provide $1 million in funding to assist key industry groups to take advantage of the National Broadband Network.

Tasmania's growing profile as an inspirational destination for Australians is soon to receive a boost thanks to a new television series.

THE parents of a Tasmanian student who drowned say they had no idea he had been going on a school excursion.

The start of works to upgrade infrastructure nearly 100 years old in Hobart showed the urgent need for water and sewerage reforms, the Treasurer, Michael Aird said today.

A tiny but historic island on Tasmania's west coast is being opened up to visitors.