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The mystery of a fireball crossing the Tasmanian skyline is solved, but not before Facebook users had declared alien life had finally made it to Tasmania.
Topics: popular-culture, social-media, internet-culture, pseudo-science, hobart-7000
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Grape picking for this year's vintage in southern Tasmania's Coal River wine region is getting underway, albeit a little later in some vineyards than last season.
Topics: viticulture, agricultural-crops, hobart-7000
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Dr Wilson talking about innovation in food packaging
Topics: food-processing, hobart-7000
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Packaging fresh produce in stores and supermarkets is now big business, with retailers seeking ways to improve the appearance, freshness and shelf life of fruit and vegetables.
Topics: agricultural-marketing, packaging, fruits, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedHobart Lord Mayor Sue Hickey backs the State Government's decision to forcibly acquire council land to help the Mount Wellington cable car project.
Topics: government-and-politics, urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, hobart-7000, tas
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A 70-year-old pensioner wants Housing Tasmania to "wake up" and do the right thing by removing a wasp nest outside his bedroom window.
Topics: pests, state-parliament, housing, hobart-7000
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The Tasmanian Government announces plans to compulsorily acquire land on Hobart’s Mount Wellington to help facilitate the construction of a cable car.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, tourism, hobart-7000
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In a bid to liven up Hobart's streets and provide dining alternatives, the City Council makes it easier for food trucks to operate, despite concerns from the hospitality industry.
Topics: food-and-beverage, local-government, hobart-7000
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Hobart's Lord Mayor supports the Tasmanian Government's plan to take control of water and sewerage infrastructure, despite concerns about the loss of dividends to councils.
Topics: water-management, water-supply, water-pollution, state-parliament, local-government, hobart-7000, launceston-7250, burnie-7320, st-helens-7216
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As the sun rises over the River Derwent, Lomu and Snap are barking out the stroke for training rowing crews.
Topics: animals, rowing, offbeat, hobart-7000
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A Tasmanian baby leaf producer is trying out cover crops to help improve soil quality.
Topics: agricultural-crops, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedThe cover crop trials cover nearly six hectares and Houston's Farm crop production manager Petra Doust hopes they will show an improvement in soil quality.
Topics: agricultural-crops, agribusiness, women-in-agriculture, hobart-7000
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Rowing coach Michele Duffy
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| UpdatedAttention! Woof! Go! Lomu and Snap, the chocolate kelpies, love rowing practice on the River Derwent each morning, assisting Michele Duffy coach her teams.
Topics: rowing, animals, offbeat, hobart-7000
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The Story Island Project is collecting real-life tales of life on and around the Brooker Highway to inspire creativity and improve literacy among school students.
Topics: community-and-society, community-organisations, history, primary-schools, schools, human-interest, glenorchy-7010, hobart-7000
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If you happen to be in the audience of a silent movie this weekend, watch out; you are the inspiration for the piano player supplying the music.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, music, hobart-7000
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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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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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| 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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| UpdatedAn increase in exotic pests and diseases pushes Australian agriculture and environmentalists to demand more focus on biosecurity.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, pest-management, pests, agricultural-policy, sydney-2000, hobart-7000, perth-6000, bunbury-6230, mildura-3500, kununurra-6743, lismore-2480, tully-4854, woolloongabba-4102
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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