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Tasmania's Premier hoses down claims he is picking a fight with councils, as his Resources Minister warns he will "fight in the trenches" to get controversial forestry legislation through the first session of Parliament.
Topics: government-and-politics, environmental-policy, tas
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A Tasmanian man convicted over one of the state's largest ever drug busts, during which police seized cannabis with an estimated street value of $2.3 million, is sentenced to more than three years in jail.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, burnie-7320, tas
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| UpdatedFrontline services will be impacted as jobs are slashed from the federal Health Department, the public sector union warns.
Topics: public-sector, government-and-politics, health-policy, health-administration, australia, act, nsw, vic, tas, sa, qld, nt, wa
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| UpdatedThirty-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
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| UpdatedIt is much cheaper to destroy a greyhound in Tasmania than re-home a dog through an industry-run program - a situation that is angering animal rights activists.
Topics: animal-welfare, animals, tas
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| UpdatedAustralia's largest salmon company Tassal says it will oppose legal action taken by competitor Huon Aquaculture against Tasmania's Environment Protection Authority.
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A gallery of loos with views from around Tasmania
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| UpdatedWhat does it take to service the 330 public toilets in some of the most remote and difficult places to get to in Tasmania.
Topics: national-parks, human-interest, offbeat, environmental-impact, tas, hobart-7000
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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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There are fears Tasmania's giant kelp forests are almost extinct.
Topics: environment, tas
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Not everyone is happy about a newly-opened cafe on Mount Wellington in Tasmania, located at the site of the historic chalet that burnt down in the 1967 Black Tuesday fires.
Topics: travel-and-tourism, lifestyle-and-leisure, hobart-7000, tas
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| UpdatedPreventing sexual violence is everyone's responsibility, but we need to be careful about how we do it, writes Bianca Fileborn from UNSW.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, australia, vic, tas, qld, sa, nt, nsw, wa
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| UpdatedTasmania's giant kelp forests are almost extinct, a Senate inquiry into the impact of climate change on sea life is told.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, government-and-politics, climate-change, eaglehawk-neck-7179, tas, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedThere are plans to wipe out one in five of Australia's remaining feral rabbits with a new strain of the calicivirus to be released next week.
Topics: animals, human-interest, rural, animal-science, animal-welfare, australia, act, wa, qld, tas, nt, nsw, sa
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Tasmanian mayors hit back over claims they should be doing more to fund urgent water and sewerage upgrades as they prepare for a Friday showdown with the State Government.
Topics: government-and-politics, local-government, water-supply, tas
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| UpdatedRussell Jenkins of Geeveston says the RAW mental health service, now facing budget uncertainties, saved his life.
Topics: mental-health, community-and-society, charities, tas
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| UpdatedSheep racing is part of a unique attempt to draw a crowd to a tiny Tasmanian town an hour's drive north of Hobart.
Topics: lifestyle-and-leisure, travel-and-tourism, rural-tourism, kempton-7030, tas
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| UpdatedTreasurer Peter Gutwein calls a meeting for Friday, declaring "it's not good enough" that 25 Tasmanian towns continue to have unsafe drinking water.
Topics: water-management, government-and-politics, tas
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Is year 12 really worth all the stress, and does it prepare you for the real world? Students who self-documented their entire final year for the ABC give their verdicts.
Topics: secondary-schools, schools, education, australia, wa, vic, tas, sa, qld, nt, nsw, act, kununurra-6743
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Nostalgic athletes from around Australia descend on a town in Tasmania's north for the National Penny-Farthing Championships.
Topics: events, human-interest, evandale-7212, tas
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| UpdatedThe State Government moves to ban super trawlers from Tasmanian waters and wants the Federal Government to follow suit.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, government-and-politics, tas, ulverstone-7315
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| UpdatedThe garden of Stanwell Hall, the former Hobart home of the father of Australian landscape painting John Glover, opens to the public to celebrate his 250th birthday.
Topics: art-history, arts-and-entertainment, history, community-and-society, hobart-7000, tas