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| UpdatedSkipper Steve Smith says Australia must work on all aspects of its game after suffering a 177-run loss at the WACA, the team's fourth Test defeat in a row.
Topics: sport, cricket, perth-6000, wa, hobart-7000, tas, australia, south-africa
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South Africa will take a 1-0 lead into the second Test in Hobart after putting in a dominant display at the WACA Ground.
Topics: sport, cricket, wa, perth-6000, hobart-7000, tas, australia, south-africa
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| UpdatedJoe Burns and Callum Ferguson are in Australia's squad for the second Test against South Africa after Shaun Marsh was ruled out with a broken finger.
Topics: cricket, sport, perth-6000, wa, hobart-7000, tas, australia
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| UpdatedFour new eco-tourism projects will be up and running in Tasmanian parks and reserves in time for the summer tourist season including a trekking adventure in South West National Park and a boat charter at Port Davey.
Topics: government-and-politics, tourism, tas
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Forty-three per cent of Australian women are not being screened regularly enough for cervical cancer, a fatal disease that is almost completely preventable, according to the Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation.
Topics: cervical-and-vulval-cancers, cancer, diseases-and-disorders, health, science-and-technology, melbourne-3000, vic, wa, tas, sa, qld, nsw, nt, act, australia
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| UpdatedThe story of a young Hobart boy who makes bears for sick children captures the hearts of millions around the world as his deeds go viral.
Topics: community-and-society, hobart-7000, tas
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| UpdatedA man and a woman appear in an out-of-hours court today charged with murder of Launceston man Aaron Matthew Monaco.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, police, newnham-7248, tas
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A former MP has labelled Safe Schools "disgusting" as Tasmanian Liberal Party members pass a motion at the party's annual state conference calling for the education program to be abolished.
Topics: liberals, schools, government-and-politics, education, bullying, women, launceston-7250, tas
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Topics: government-and-politics, launceston-7250, tas
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The amount of heroin detected being smuggled into Tasmania in the first three months of this financial year is three times the amount seized for the entire previous year.
Topics: drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, crime, police, drug-use, tas
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| UpdatedA man and a woman are in police custody after a 41-year-old was stabbed multiple times at a Launceston home and died en route to hospital.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, newnham-7248, tas
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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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| UpdatedYoung children are among the first group of Syrian and Iraqi refugees to arrive in Tasmania, as the PM defends the time taken to conduct security checks.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, federal---state-issues, tas
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| UpdatedThe Tasmanian Government is forced to rule out logging near one of the state's most popular tourism walks, the Three Capes Track.
Topics: environment, timber, environmental-impact, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, port-arthur-7182, tas
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| UpdatedThe discontinuing of a synthetic pigment which colours salmon flesh pink in favour of its natural version was not a reaction to a Four Corners report, a Tasmanian salmon company says.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, fish, food-processing, tas
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| UpdatedTasmanian man Andrew Gaskell, who on Tuesday was winched to safety after weeks missing in a Malaysian forest, admits he got into serious trouble after ignoring safety procedures in a similar area two months earlier.
Topics: missing-person, malaysia, tas
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Tasmania's most junior Liberal senator will move into the north-west office of ousted federal minister Richard Colbeck after months of internal quarrels.
Topics: states-and-territories, liberals, tas
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Former trainer, rider and bookmaker Mick Heatley, who believes the public not longer tolerates whips in racing, fails in his bid to have them banned from harness racing in Tasmania.
Topics: horse-racing, tas
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| UpdatedThe World Wildlife Fund admits it did have discussions with Tasmanian salmon company Huon Aquaculture about using its logo on their salmon products, after previously denying the claim on the ABC's Four Corners program.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, tas
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Elizabeth Gaskell, the mother of a hiker who was lost in a remote Malaysian national park for two weeks, speaks about the ordeal.
Topics: missing-person, tas
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| UpdatedBede Jones, a Palawa man from Tasmania, hopes being awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University will encourage others to leverage their differences and aim high.
Topics: aboriginal, university-and-further-education, awards-and-prizes, gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, tas
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More than 500 returned World War I servicemen are thought to be lying in unmarked graves around Tasmania, a sad oversight the Headstone Project is working to fix.
Topics: world-war-1, veterans, history, depression-1930s, human-interest, cornelian-bay-7008, tas
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| UpdatedTasmanian hiker Andrew Gaskell, who spent two weeks lost in a remote Malaysian national park, says he ate ferns and was starting to lose strength before being found by a search and rescue team.
Topics: missing-person, community-and-society, malaysia, asia, tas, australia
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| UpdatedA Tasmanian man lost in a Malaysian mountain range is found alive, weeks after being reported missing.
Topics: missing-person, malaysia, tas
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| UpdatedThe Tasmanian Government defends its regulation of the salmon industry following a warning that poor management could lead to an "environmental disaster".
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, tas