Georgie is a reporter in the ABC's Hobart newsroom. She began her journalism career at Fairfax and has been working as a political reporter in Tasmania since 2013. Georgie joined the ABC in August 2016. You can find her on Twitter @georgieburgo
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Accusations fly as the Liberals and Greens attack Labor's stance on salmon farming, after the party threw its support behind Tassal's expansion plans but at the same time announced policy around tighter industry regulations.
Topics: state-parliament, elections, government-and-politics, fishing-aquaculture, tas
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| UpdatedA call by a Tasmanian young Liberal supporter group to banish poker machines wins rare praise from an arch political rival — but also a distancing from the Liberal Party.
Topics: gambling, political-parties, tas
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| UpdatedTasmania's Anglican Bishop takes disciplinary action against Philip Newell — a bishop in Tasmania for 18 years — who was found to have allowed a man he knew had sexually abused boys to stay in the church.
Topics: child-abuse, royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, anglicans, tas
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| UpdatedThe Tasmanian Greens say a $150 million budget windfall from a booming property market should be spent on fixing Launceston's ageing water and sewerage system.
Topics: states-and-territories, water-management, water-supply, tas
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| UpdatedTourist hotspot Bruny Island will have a new ferry service by the middle of next year but the Tasmanian Government is short on detail.
Topics: states-and-territories, travel-and-tourism, dennes-point-7150
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| UpdatedPeople playing poker machines don't expect to win and consider it no different to going to a movie, a hospitality group representative has told Tasmania's gambling inquiry.
Topics: gambling
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| UpdatedLegal action brought against the Government's environmental watchdog by a salmon producer will be "vigorously" defended, the Tasmanian Premier says.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, environmental-impact, environmental-management, environmentally-sustainable-business, government-and-politics, tas
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| UpdatedSalmon companies Tassal and Petuna will not be supporting Huon Aquaculture's legal action over salmon numbers in Macquarie Harbour.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, environmental-management, state-parliament, courts-and-trials, strahan-7468, hobart-7000
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Tasmanians who rent out rooms on Airbnb will no longer need permits, as the Government unveils its policy on the so-called "sharing economy".
Topics: tourism, state-parliament, hobart-7000, launceston-7250, st-helens-7216, tas
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| UpdatedThe Greens' Nick McKim says Federal Government support for new generation coal-fired power will hit renewables investment in Tasmania.
Topics: energy, hydro-energy, environment, electricity-energy-and-utilities, coal, tas
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| UpdatedYounger people are starting to return to Tasmania, with housing affordability boosting the population and driving economic growth.
Topics: economic-trends, states-and-territories, tas
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| UpdatedA sewage leak, which has closed some Tasmanian oyster farms, will cost jobs and hurt the economy in the St Helen's region, the mayor has warned.
Topics: water-pollution, fishing-aquaculture, tas
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The woman behind the controversial Ellendale centre housing convicted sex offenders is remaining defiant against government moves to relocate it.
Topics: crime, sexual-offences, charities, community-and-society, states-and-territories, ellendale-7140
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There are hopes of a reprieve for residents in north-west Tasmania who have been facing the closure of health services in the Kentish area.
Topics: health-insurance, health-administration, healthcare-facilities, community-and-society, sheffield-7306
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| UpdatedTasmania's federal MPs racked up half a million dollars worth of travel and accommodation in the six months to June last year, according to newly released figures.
Topics: political-parties, tax, tas
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| UpdatedHydro Tasmania will fire up the main generator at its controversial gas-powered Tamar Valley Power Station, to ease demand on its water storages.
Topics: hydro-energy, electricity-energy-and-utilities, tas
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A Tasmanian team takes the sting out of jellyfish around the world, with a GPS-based app that identifies them and tells you how to treat their stings.
Topics: animal-attacks, computers-and-technology, hobart-7000, launceston-7250
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| UpdatedA "shadowy" lobby group with links to Environment Tasmania funds a controversial television ad about salmon farming on the state's east coast.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, government-and-politics, tas, triabunna-7190
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After weeks of industrial action Tasmanian nurses and midwives give in-principle support to a pay offer from the the State Government.
Topics: doctors-and-medical-professionals, health-administration, health, tas
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Hitting out at his own government, Tasmanian Liberal Senator Eric Abetz says the budgetary decision to scrap the Green Army, young job seekers who work on environmental projects, is "unpalatable" and cuts could have been made to foreign aid instead.
Topics: government-and-politics, environment, unemployment, community-and-society, tas, australia
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| UpdatedThe mission to upgrade Tasmania's water and sewerage systems could see the responsibility taken out of TasWater's hands, economist Saul Eslake says.
Topics: water-management, states-and-territories, water-supply, local-government, state-parliament, tas
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| UpdatedTasmania, the "least employed and least educated" part of Australia, risks recording a gross state product 40 per cent lower than that of the mainland if changes aren't made, Saul Eslake warns.
Topics: economic-trends, states-and-territories, tas
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| UpdatedAustralia's energy regulator recommends a second undersea power cable between Tasmania and Victoria, but just who would pay the billion-dollar bill is already in dispute.
Topics: government-and-politics, energy, hydro-energy, alternative-energy, environment, tas
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| UpdatedHydro Tasmania confirms it set up a specialist committee to investigate options for the Basslink cable, as a dispute with the undersea cable owner continues.
Topics: state-parliament, electricity-energy-and-utilities, hydro-energy, tas
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Basslink claims the Tasmanian Government's rejection of its Bass Strait cable failure explanation is "misinformed", and the Energy Minister is either "misadvised or he's a part-time international cable expert".
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, industry, business-economics-and-finance, tas