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| UpdatedTaking the skin from an animal, cleaning it up and putting it through the tanning process to its finished state, is what 90-year-old Bryan Pearce has loved doing for the best part of 40 years.
Topics: animals, work, human-interest, community-and-society, deloraine-7304, tas
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The Tasmanian Greens want to replace the "failed" Ashley Youth Detention Centre with two medium- to high-security home-like buildings.
Topics: youth, community-and-society, crime-prevention, government-and-politics, political-parties, greens, state-parliament, crime, law-crime-and-justice, deloraine-7304
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The Tasmanian Greens Leader is resisting a party proposal she says would give "faceless" people too much power.
Topics: government-and-politics, deloraine-7304, tas
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| UpdatedStaff at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre have told investigators they feel undermined by management and unable to respond appropriately to incidents, a union representative says.
Topics: youth, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, deloraine-7304, tas
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| UpdatedA report into Tasmania's Ashley Youth Detention Centre raises concerns about "worrying" staff behaviours and a preference for physical restraints.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, youth, state-parliament, deloraine-7304, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedThe Tasmanian Government confirms that one worker at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre has been temporarily stood down after clashing with inmates last month.
Topics: state-parliament, law-crime-and-justice, youth, deloraine-7304, hobart-7000, launceston-7250
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| UpdatedTasmania's Children's Commissioner believes a review of staff conduct at the state's only youth detention centre makes the case for independent monitoring.
Topics: youth, law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, tas, deloraine-7304
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| UpdatedThe conduct of staff during a standoff at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre in Tasmania's north prompts an urgent investigation and calls for the facility to be closed.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, youth, states-and-territories, deloraine-7304, tas
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| UpdatedShards of glass were brandished in two recent standoffs at the Ashley Youth Detention Centre in Tasmania's north-west.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, deloraine-7304
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Foodbank Tasmania is calling for donations because while demand for food aid has surged after the recent floods, contributions have decreased.
Topics: floods, charities, community-and-society, deloraine-7304
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Tasmanian potato farmers and chip processor Simplot agree to a pay increase, phased in over the next three years.
Topics: vegetables, agricultural-prices, crop-harvesting, deloraine-7304
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Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Simplot Potato Growers Committee chairman and Scottsdale farmer, Trevor Hall says potato prices rises for the Tasmanian crop amount to about 5 per cent over three years.
Topics: vegetables, agricultural-prices, crop-harvesting, deloraine-7304
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With detainee numbers at Tasmania's only youth detention centre dwindling, the State Government is turning to more therapeutic methods of rehabilitation.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime-prevention, youth, deloraine-7304
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| UpdatedA 12-year-old girl is caught driving at 122 kilometres an hour in Tasmania's north, police allege, while a man is facing charges after he was caught travelling at 200kph.
Topics: traffic-offences, crime-prevention, deloraine-7304, perth-7300, mole-creek-7304
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| UpdatedAn artist who uses "road kill" to create her colourful and quirky works is the feature artist at this year's Tasmania Craft Fair.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, contemporary-art, visual-art, deloraine-7304
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| UpdatedA Tasmanian distiller's growth in spirit production creates skilled jobs and demand for local barley.
Topics: food-and-beverage, beverages, grain, deloraine-7304
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| UpdatedWhiskey distiller, Bill Lark says he expects his distillery will use between 50 to 100 tonnes of Tasmanian barley a year, when it trebles its output again. He says demand for Tasmanian whiskey is outpacing supply.
Topics: food-and-beverage, beverages, grain, events, deloraine-7304
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| UpdatedAuthorities have had to rifle through rubbish after the careless disposal of an emergency beacon at a garbage tip sparked an unnecessary nationally coordinated search across northern Tasmania.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, community-and-society, deloraine-7304
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A Tasmanian woodchopper sets a new national record, but misses out on Australian team selection.
Topics: community-and-society, human-interest, deloraine-7304, bathurst-2795
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| UpdatedThe Tasmanian Government defends stringent food safety regulations that forced the state's only organic dairy to close.
Topics: dairy-production, food-processing, health-policy, health-administration, deloraine-7304
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As the days get shorter and the nights get colder it's time for small-scale organic vegetable farmer Jenny Edlington to close up her road-side market stall in Deloraine in northern Tasmania. Read more
Topics: vegetables, food-and-beverage, women-in-agriculture, agricultural-marketing, deloraine-7304
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| UpdatedTasmania's Parliament has lost one of its most dogged and divisive characters in the sudden departure of Kim Booth.
Topics: greens, political-parties, government-and-politics, state-parliament, states-and-territories, deloraine-7304, tas
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| UpdatedOne northern Tasmanian grower sees her farm gate shop as an integral link to the local food economy.
Topics: rural, food-and-beverage, agricultural-marketing, deloraine-7304, tas