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| UpdatedThe State Government and some Aboriginal groups reject a push for a separate Upper House electorate for Tasmania's Indigenous community.
Topics: government-and-politics, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, launceston-7250, tas
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| UpdatedA former federal MP who held Tasmania's largest electorate is headed to a new island, and this time he will be running the whole show.
Topics: government-and-politics, tas, norfolk-island
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A Tasmanian financial planner who stole more than $2.3 million from a client to fund his own extravagant lifestyle is jailed for eight years.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, hobart-7000, tas
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| UpdatedThe minister responsible for Tasmania's child services is forced to correct the record after being caught out over an email conversation discussing the ABC's request for information about protection provider Safe Pathways.
Topics: government-and-politics, child-abuse, tas
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Tasmania's largest salmon producer Tassal reveals major expansion plans, flagging a $270 million investment in capital expenditure over the next five years.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, fishing-aquaculture, tas
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Tasmanians are now able to report crime at the click of a button after the launch of a local Crime Stoppers website, with the potential for video to be uploaded down the track.
Topics: police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, tas
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| UpdatedA Tasmanian man who tried to seduce a 14-year-old girl over Facebook is added to the sex offenders register and sentenced to community service.
Topics: courts-and-trials, child-abuse, tas
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The Tasmanian Government is moving to broaden the definition of rape in legislation to be introduced in April, making the charge more gender-neutral and to recognise a raft of non-consensual sex acts.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, hobart-7000, tas
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Noisy gas-powered devices used to scare off birds away from vineyards has turned a winery region into an "artillery range", an irate neighbour says.
Topics: pest-management, rural, environment, cranbrook-7190, tas
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| UpdatedThe small gene pool of Tasmania may be the butt of many jokes, but it could help find a breakthrough in prostate cancer research.
Topics: prostate-cancer, diseases-and-disorders, medical-research, health, tas
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| UpdatedTasmania's Aboriginal Centre proposes having Aboriginal seats in the state's Parliament, saying Indigenous people are "locked out" of elections.
Topics: government-and-politics, indigenous-culture, indigenous-policy, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, hobart-7000, tas
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The remains of Tasmania's first bishop Robert William Willson, who is credited with trying to alleviate the more brutal forms of convict punishment, arrive from the UK.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, catholic, tas
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| UpdatedTasmanian man Klaus Neubert, who murdered his wife as she sat in her car in peak-hour traffic in Hobart, may be forced to pay the shooting survivor $1 million.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, hobart-7000, tas
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The Tasmanian health system is getting more beds after a report into hospital operations, commissioned in the wake of a scandal involving a 95yo woman's waiting room ordeal, is released.
Topics: health-administration, doctors-and-medical-professionals, health, tas
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| UpdatedA Tasmanian learner driver appears in a Burnie court over a 2016 crash that killed his teenage girlfriend and their infant son.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, burnie-7320, tas
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| UpdatedMange is not the only threat facing Tasmania's wombats, as more than 50 permits are issued in the past year to cull the protected mammals on farming properties.
Topics: animals, human-interest, tas
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| UpdatedTwo directors of embattled company Bellamy's resign, another two are voted out, while shareholders knock back Tasmanian business woman Jan Cameron's bid for a seat.
Topics: company-news, food-and-beverage, dairy-production, australia, tas
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| UpdatedThe plan to reopen logging to stimulate the Tasmanian timber products industry could backfire and cost jobs, an independent politician says.
Topics: forestry, forests, environment, tas
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A slanging match breaks out over a proposal for Tasmania's water and sewerage system to be taken out of the hands of local councils.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, government-and-politics, water-management, water, water-supply, tas
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| UpdatedThe head of Tasmania's largest native sawmill warns no-one in the industry wants a return to the "forest wars" and says wood from forests the Government is proposing to reopen to logging may go unclaimed.
Topics: forestry, environmental-management, environmental-policy, tas
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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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| UpdatedThe nephew of Ordinary Seaman Teddy Sheean, killed in a Japanese attack in World War II, writes directly to the British Admiralty asking for his uncle to be recognised with the Victoria Cross.
Topics: world-war-2, community-and-society, awards-and-prizes, tas
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A Tasmanian coalition of community groups galvanises opposition to a new statewide planning scheme as the Property Council promotes its benefits.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, community-and-society, tas