Carla Howarth
Carla Howarth is a reporter at ABC Northern Tasmania. She joined the ABC in Brisbane in 2015 and has also worked for ABC Gold Coast. Carla tweets from @CarlaHowarth
Tarkine's ancient history 'should qualify area as national park'
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Thirty-five new sites of Aboriginal heritage significance are discovered on Tasmania's Tarkine coastline, renewing calls for the area to be declared a national park.
Topics: indigenous-culture, environmental-impact, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, environmental-management, government-and-politics, arthur-river-7330, tas
Football trophy won by mysterious club comes home to Launceston
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An 1896 premiership football trophy won by a Tasmanian club is returned to Launceston after being displayed in the wrong museum for 15 years.
Topics: sport, australian-football-league, launceston-7250, tas, fitzroy-3065, vic
Tasmanian irrigation scheme raises ire of north-west farmers
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North-west Tasmanian farmers say they have not been properly consulted about an irrigation pipeline that will be built on their properties.
Topics: irrigation, smithton-7330
Tasmanian National Parks infrastructure 'not good enough' say tourists
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Tasmania's National Parks attract a record number of tourists this summer, prompting calls for urgent infrastructure upgrades to keep up with demand.
Topics: tourism, alonnah-7150, cradle-mountain-7306, orford-7190
Stockfeed company to open Tasmanian fish food mill
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Ridley Corporation announces plans to spend $50 million building a fish feed mill as it battles legal action against Huon Aquaculture.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, westbury-7303
Man whose actions reignited Tasmania's fox debate cops fine
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A 59-year-old man who sparked a heated debate about fox control after bringing a carcass into Tasmania and dumping it is fined $1,500.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, launceston-7250, tas, vic
Bobbie the Bear, bilingual rangers helping Chinese tourists
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A small purple bear popular with Chinese tourists in Tasmania is being used in the latest road safety campaign, as bilingual park rangers improve visitor experiences.
Topics: national-parks, tourism, coles-bay-7215
Warning against regional neglect as arts group axed after 70 years
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A regional arts group which has given cultural and insurance support to thousands of Tasmanian artists is set to close because of a funding shortfall.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, launceston-7250
Tasmanian rail operator, safety investigator at odds over derailment
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A transport safety authority's report into a freight train derailment in Tasmania is questioned by the rail operator's CEO, who admits he has not read the report "completely".
Topics: rail, rail-transport, nala-7120
End of an era as 173yo Birchalls book store to close
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Australia's oldest book shop is preparing to close after more than 170 years of trading in Launceston, Tasmania.
Topics: books-literature, small-business, launceston-7250, tas
Tasmania's firefighting capabilities now world class, says Hidding
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Four years on from the Dunalley fires, the Government says Tasmania is better equipped than ever to combat bushfires.
Topics: fires, disasters-and-accidents, government-and-politics, community-and-society, dunalley-7177, tas
Tasmanian Morgan Gaffney pips Olympian Morgan Mitchell in 2017 Burnie Gift
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Local athletes ring in the New Year with wins in the men's and women's Gifts at the Burnie Sports Carnival, in northern Tasmania.
Topics: sport, burnie-7320
Spirits lifted as tourist drawcard Marakoopa Cave reopens
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Local businesses in Mole Creek in Tasmania's north are hopeful the reopening of Marakoopa Cave will bring a much needed tourism boost in the area.
Topics: travel-and-tourism, rural-tourism, floods, mole-creek-7304, tas
Dog attack spurs wave of social media support for pet declared dangerous
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Thousands of people on social media call for a dog, who allegedly attacked and seriously injured a young boy in Tasmania's north-west, to be released by council.
Topics: animal-welfare, human-interest, animal-attacks, community-and-society, wynyard-7325, tas
Tasmanian man charged over fox carcass brought in from Victoria
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A Tasmanian man is charged in relation to a fox carcass allegedly brought in from the mainland, and which had reignited an ongoing argument of whether a task force set up to investigate the presence of foxes in the state was running on false evidence.
Topics: animals, human-interest, environment, tas
Aboriginal remains return to Tasmania, with call to change the law
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More Aboriginal remains taken for research are back home, accompanied by a call for laws to stop any more removals.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, tas
$14m flood-repair package to fix infrastructure and Beaconsfield mine
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The Federal and State Governments have announced up to $14 million will be made available to help Tasmania recover from the devastating June floods.
Topics: government-and-politics, floods, disasters-and-accidents, rural-tourism, beaconsfield-7270, tas, sheffield-7306
Crop growers push case to use bumblebees for commercial pollination
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Tasmanian crop growers who have to pollinate crops by hand hope a Senate inquiry will clear the way for bumblebees to do the job instead.
Topics: agricultural-crops, invertebrates---insects-and-arachnids, pest-management, pests, states-and-territories, tas
Robbers in clown masks hold up bakery
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Two robbers wearing clown masks hold up a Launceston bakery, threatening workers with a shotgun.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, trevallyn-7250, tas, launceston-7250
Queenstown's The Unconformity arts festival helping reshape mining region
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The Unconformity festival is set to give the Tasmanian west coast town of Queenstown a much-needed boost this weekend.
Topics: carnivals-and-festivals, regional, queenstown-7467
Floating turbine in Tamar River shows 'enormous potential' of tidal energy
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A floating turbine is installed in the Tamar River, north of Launceston, in the next step in harnessing tidal movement to generate energy.
Topics: tidal-energy, alternative-energy, environment, energy, science-and-technology, research, launceston-7250, tas
Eel sonar tracking may help find migration 'bypass' solution to dam wall
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The Trevallyn dam has a purpose-built "fish ladder" to help eels migrate but now scientists are investigating the possibility of a bypass.
Topics: animal-behaviour, animal-science, science-and-technology, launceston-7250
Social media blitz during Launceston flood emergency wins praise
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A social media campaign using everyday council staff during the floods threatening Launceston in June wins praise as a new standard in keeping communities informed.
Topics: local-government, emergency-planning, floods, social-media, launceston-7250
Elaborate mail scam catches Tasmanians out
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A number of Tasmanians are targeted by an elaborate scam involving promises of luxury holidays and cash prizes, police say.
Topics: fraud-and-corporate-crime, law-crime-and-justice, tas
Penguin rallies to clean up heritage-listed cemetery after 'tornado' vandal attack
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Residents in the Tasmanian coastal town of Penguin rally to clear up a trail of damage at a heritage-listed cemetery left by a "tornado" of vandalism.
Topics: vandalism, penguin-7316
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